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

[Hauke Fath]

Am 14.12.2005 um 11:05 Uhr +0100 schrieb Hauke Fath:
>after about a day of operation, dovecot 1.0alpha5 (NetBSD/i386 2.1) 
>died on me with
>
>Dec 14 10:53:52 bounce dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
>Dec 14 10:54:23 bounce last message repeated 279661 times
>Dec 14 10:56:23 bounce last message repeated 1071807 times
>Dec 14 10:56:59 bounce last message repeated 325386 times
>
>-- any ideas on what to tune?

I just noted that I ran into this before: 
http://www.dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-July/003964.html

For now, I bumped the 'open files' shell limit in the dovecot start 
script to 1024 (default was 64 which sounds a bit on the low side). 
Any ideas on how many concurrent open files a Dovecot instance needs?

	hauke

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