Re: [Dovecot] dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 13:55 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:

I'm encountering lots of Oct 31 11:14:25 postamt dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files errors around midday ever since the latest upgrade to 1.0.7.

The errors appear in pairs like this one: Oct 31 11:20:01 postamt dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files

You have too many login/auth/mail processes running and/or your ulimit -n is too small.

I doubt any change in 1.0.6 or 1.0.7 itself caused this.