[Dovecot] dovecot died

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Apr 21 17:21:03 EEST 2006


On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 08:49 +0100, Obantec Support wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Still running 1.0 stable (an old release i know but until i see more stable
> reports on beta7 i will hold out).
> 
> last night is the first time in months the dovecot has died. maillog has
> repeated lines of this.
> 
> Apr 16 02:31:37 proteus2 dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files

Since 1.0.beta6 Dovecot should be able to restore itself after this
problem when more file descriptors are available. Of course if it's
leaking the fds for some reason then it can't really fix itself without
restarting..

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