[Dovecot] dovecot: imap-login: Error: net_connect_unix(imap) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable

[Kurt Hockenbury]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 10:33 -0500, Kurt Hockenbury wrote:
>> Ok, we updated to dovecot 2.0.9, and we're still seeing the
>> "net_connect_unix(imap) failed" problem happen around peak login time,
>> 9-10am.
>
> Hmm. Maybe I need to do something more complex here to make it wait for
> a longer time to be able to connect.. You could try if this helps
> though:
>
> service imap {
>  process_min_avail = 12
> }

I added that to the config, but we still saw the problem re-occur 
starting around 9:45am and again at 2pm.

dovecot: imap-login: Error: net_connect_unix(imap) failed: Resource temporarily unavailable

Right now, the only way we seem to be able to recover is to restart 
dovecot, which isn't a good solution.

-Kurt