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

[Mark E. Mallett]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 11:05:23AM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 21:17, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
> > 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
> 
> What passdb are you using? PAM? Something is leaking fds there, but I
> don't think it's getpwnam() itself.

Hi-

Plain old passwd file checking.

auth = default
auth_mechanisms = plain
auth_userdb = passwd
auth_passdb = passwd

mm