On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 11:39 +0100, Martin Preen wrote:
Hello, a few days ago I switched out UW-server installation to dovecot 0.99.14 (Solaris 9). There were a few client issues, but mostly the migration was ok.
But I have still some questions/problems:
+) dovecot-auth: ... PAM: pipe() failed: Too many open files I increased the max. number of open files. Is this normal behaviour, that more than 512 open files are needed ?
Depends on how many logins/sec you have. It's normal if you have >400/s, but probably not otherwise..
+) we're using mbox on NFS and index files on local disks. When building the index files for the first time, it takes (of course) a long time for large folders. But we have these users, and this will happen sometimes. Is there a way to improve performance ?
1.0-tests / dovecot-stable releases take somewhat less time to do it.
+) in general dovecot saves a lot of NFS-bandwidth compared to UW-imap. Thats what I was looking for. But there also seems to be a problem with large inboxes (> 10 MB) and/or large attachments. Is this right ?
One user currently gets this error from Pine when accessing a large attachment: MAIL FOLDER "INBOX" CLOSED DUE TO ACCESS ERROR. AFAIK this error is related to some timeout problem. Has anyone seen this (and a solution for it) ?
Hmm. No idea really.. But I'd rather not spend time trying to figure out 0.99.x bugs. If this is reproduceable with 1.0-tests / dovecot-stable I'll look at it.