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

[Charlie Brady]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Mark E. Mallett wrote:

> The only way to make the services start responding again is to stop and
> restart the dovecot suite of control processes. dovecot suite of control
> processes.

Or you can run things my way (under tcpserver/stunnel/imapfront-auth) and 
there's one dovecot process for each connection, each unrelated. This 
illustrates my point about re-using already well trusted simple programs
to do as much of the task as possible. 

> Raising the openfiles limit
> certainly pushes off the problem, and maybe that's a good enough
> workaround (as long as there's always a higher limit availble...)

... which is something that you can *never* assume.

--
Charlie