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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">In data venerdė 7 settembre 2018 11:20:49 CEST, Sami Ketola ha scritto:</p>

<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> > On 7 Sep 2018, at 11.25, Simone Lazzaris <simone.lazzaris@qcom.it> wrote:</p>

<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">> > Actually, I have a poolmon script running that should drop vhost count for</p>

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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Interesting, I'll surely upgrade the script in the next days. Thanks for the hint.</p>

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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">But the script is surely not the ultimate cause of the failures: the backend (and the script itself) are untouched  - and working - since many moons ago. </p>

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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">After about 60 seconds, I've aborted the strace and restarted dovecot to avoid upsetting customers. Searching for file descriptor #15 in /proc/nnnn/fd I found "anon_inode:[eventpoll]"</p>

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