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

[Mark E. Mallett]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 08:45:03PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 20:28, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
> > Had an event today where dovecot refused new connections and would not
> > accept more until restarted, whereupon it worked for a few minutes and
> > locked up again.  Looking at the logs it appeared that it had run out
> > of file descriptors.  I increased the open files limit and started it
> > again-- which worked but it only pushes off the problem.
> 
> Which process ran out of fds? "dovecot"?

Sorry for being non-specific.  dovecot-auth was the program that logged
the error, like this:

dovecot-auth: getpwnam(xxxx) failed: Too many open files

mm