[Dovecot] dovecot-auth: Too many open files

[Joe Allesi -X (joallesi - Coyote Creek Consulting at Cisco)]

It's just a default RHEL4 RPM distribution and configuration. No changes
or optimizations have been done. No LDAP, just the local passwd.


-----Original Message-----
From: dovecot-bounces+joallesi=cisco.com at dovecot.org
[mailto:dovecot-bounces+joallesi=cisco.com at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of
Tomas Janousek
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 9:43 AM
To: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] dovecot-auth: Too many open files

Hello,

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:16:35PM -0400, Joe Allesi -X (joallesi -
Coyote Creek Consulting at Cisco) wrote:
> We recently experienced an issue that prevented all new IMAP logins 
> from occurring. Although it appears that it was due to running out of 
> available system file descriptors, I'm still not sure what the true 
> root [...]
> 
> Auth config:
> auth_userdb = passwd
> auth_passdb = pam
> [...]

Do you use LDAP or just local passwd?

--
Tomas Janousek, SW Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.