[Dovecot] Too many open files

Antonio Casado seguridad at ual.es
Wed Oct 22 00:46:36 EEST 2008


I forgot something,  i use dovecot 1.0.15 in RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.0

Do you know the problem?

Thank you.

Antonio Casado Rodríguez escribió:
> Hi, other error in "open files":
>
> dovecot: Oct 20 10:52:36 Fatal: 
> execv(/usr/local/sbin/post-login-imap-dovecot) failed: Too many open 
> files
> dovecot: Oct 20 10:52:36 Error: child 1038 (imap) returned error 84 
> (exec() failed)
> dovecot: Oct 20 10:55:51 Fatal: 
> execv(/usr/local/sbin/post-login-imap-dovecot) failed: Too many open 
> files
> dovecot: Oct 20 10:55:51 Error: child 4853 (imap) returned error 84 
> (exec() failed)
> dovecot: Oct 20 10:55:53 Fatal: 
> execv(/usr/local/sbin/post-login-imap-dovecot) failed: Too many open 
> files
> dovecot: Oct 20 10:55:53 Error: child 4898 (imap) returned error 84 
> (exec() failed)
> dovecot: Oct 20 10:55:54 Fatal: 
> execv(/usr/local/sbin/post-login-imap-dovecot) failed: Too many open 
> files
> dovecot: Oct 20 10:55:54 Error: child 4906 (imap) returned error 84 
> (exec() failed)
>
> # ulimit -a
> core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
> data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
> scheduling priority             (-e) 0
> file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
> pending signals                 (-i) 81919
> max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 32
> max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
> open files                      (-n) 1024
> pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8
> POSIX message queues     (bytes, -q) 819200
> real-time priority              (-r) 0
> stack size              (kbytes, -s) 10240
> cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
> max user processes              (-u) 81919
> virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited
> file locks                      (-x) unlimited
>
> We work in "High-performance mode" with
> login_max_processes_count = 256
>
> Our script "post-login-imap-dovecot" is:
> #!/bin/sh
> touch ~/.last_login
> exec /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
>
> Now, we have this:
> # lsof -p `cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid` | wc -l
> 1018
>
> ¿Any idea? Thanks a lot.
>
> Bye.
>



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