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

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 16:39, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Plain old passwd file checking.
> 
> auth = default
> auth_mechanisms = plain
> auth_userdb = passwd
> auth_passdb = passwd

Well, that's strange. I don't think getpwnam() should leave any fds
open. Auth process does keep one fd per login process, but that's also
closed when client logs in or closes the connection. Maybe using
passwd-file instead would help?