[dovecot] Re: Failure in the presence of too many connections

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Mark E. Mallett wrote:

The only way to make the services start responding again is to stop and restart the dovecot suite of control processes. dovecot suite of control processes.

Or you can run things my way (under tcpserver/stunnel/imapfront-auth) and there's one dovecot process for each connection, each unrelated. This illustrates my point about re-using already well trusted simple programs to do as much of the task as possible.

Raising the openfiles limit certainly pushes off the problem, and maybe that's a good enough workaround (as long as there's always a higher limit availble...)

... which is something that you can *never* assume.

-- Charlie