[Dovecot] OpenBSD and too many open files

[Bryan Vyhmeister]

On Aug 1, 2007, at 9:52 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On 1.8.2007, at 19.43, Quentin Garnier wrote:
>
>> FWIW, I've stopped using dovecot's kqueue code quite some time ago
>> because it would leak one fd almost every login, leading to the  
>> kind of
>> situation you experience.  I wish I had the time to debug that, but
>> unfortunately...
>
> I thought this happened only with older NetBSDs. I tested it myself  
> once with 3.0 (or 3.1?) and I couldn't get it to leak.
>
> But yes, with some NetBSD versions it does leak one pipe per each  
> died process because kqueue doesn't notice that the pipe was closed  
> by the other side and give an event, or something like that.

I am guessing that OpenBSD is affected in the same way?

Bryan