5 Sep
2006
5 Sep
'06
6:42 p.m.
Help!
Our students are back and they are pounding my dovecot server to death (ie "Login process died too early - shutting down" or "too many open files" type crash). I've had my third crash today.
My setup: Solaris 10, imap and imaps, 3K users coming in via horde webmail. My current connection settings are:
login_max_processes_count = 2048 login_max_connections = 4096
Q: Does raising these limits actually make my problem worse or better? Are there any other variables that I should change to prevent the "too many open files"? Suggestions?
Jeff Earickson Colby College