[Dovecot] Dovecot proxying results in "too many open files"

Gianpaolo Del Matto gianpaolo.delmatto at genotec.ch
Wed Aug 6 21:08:37 EEST 2008


Hello Timo

Well, that was fast indeed. Thank you!

I applied the patch to 1.1.2 and recompiled it,
so far it did not happen within the last 30 minutes.

I will let you know what it looks like in a day or two.

Am 06.08.2008 um 18:55 schrieb Timo Sirainen:

> On Aug 6, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Gianpaolo Del Matto wrote:
>
>> Aug  6 15:49:10 dovecot: imap-login: socket() failed: Too many open  
>> files
>> Aug  6 15:49:10 dovecot: imap-login: proxy(XYZ): connect(1.2.3.4,  
>> 143) failed: Too many open files
>
> Login processes change the fd limits themselves, but looks like the  
> value wasn't calculated correctly for SSL connections. This should  
> help: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/ea6aea0a4cbb
>


Greetings,

Gianpaolo


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