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

On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 22:50 +0100, peter wrote:

I am getting random disconnects from my imap session, dificulties to revconnect, very sluggish behaviour when changing between mail folders also frequent and rapidly repititive messages on te client "mailserver x.x.x.x is not a imap4 server"

I am running dovecot 1.0.rc2 from ports on OpenBSD 4.0 on a PIII, 500MHz 512MB

That's a really old version. You should be running v1.0.0 or later.

Aug 31 20:51:57 apache dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files

If the port used --with-ioloop=kqueue, that's the problem. kqueue is a bit buggy with OpenBSD.