[Dovecot] OS X-centricities? Too many files, temp, indexes, etc...

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 14:26 -0800, Dean Blackburn wrote:
> I'm just writing to see if anyone else is seeing the following issues, 
> and particularly if they are running OS X (especially 10.4), and/or have 
> compatible solutions (I've been reading the mailing list quite a bit, 
> and every now and then, I find a solution that just "doesn't work" 
> because of the differences in OS:
> 
> 1) Too many files open  - no plimit command on OS X, so I can't figure 
> out how to increase the max number of open files... Also, are there any 
> alternative means of CLOSING the files? stopping/restarting dovecot 
> didn't seem to help;

Which process is running out of them? There are multiple Dovecot
processes, and each could have a different reason of running out of file
handles.

> 2) I was running 1.0beta1 last week, and am now on 1.0beta3, but I'm 
> still not seeing corrupt indexes/other dovecot files rebuilding 
> themselves. I really can't stick with this solution if I'll always have 
> to worry about manually fixing broken caches/indexes.

First of all they shouldn't anymore be corrupting themselves at least
easily. What exactly are the error messages you're seeing?

Also as far as I know they're rebuilding themselves automatically in
most situations. Only if Dovecot crashes because of the corruption it
doesn't get rebuilt. If it's not crashing with you, could it be just
that they keep re-breaking all the time?

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