[Dovecot] Too many open files

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jun 14 12:17:30 EEST 2005


On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 12:57 +0100, Andrew Hutchings wrote:
> Just got this on one of my test72 dovecot servers:
> 
> -
> Jun 10 12:40:28 svr21 dovecot: auth(default): 
> net_connect_unix(/var/run/dovecot/auth-worker.18818) failed: Too many 
> open files
..
> Is dovecot leaving files open?  Or is it a large mailbox?

Here's a fix:

Index: auth-worker-server.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/lib/cvs/dovecot/src/auth/auth-worker-server.c,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 auth-worker-server.c
--- auth-worker-server.c	28 May 2005 15:14:12 -0000	1.2
+++ auth-worker-server.c	14 Jun 2005 09:16:54 -0000
@@ -110,6 +110,9 @@
 		}
 	}
 
+	if (close(conn->fd) < 0)
+		i_error("close(auth worker) failed: %m");
+
 	buffer_free(conn->requests);
 	io_remove(conn->io);
 	i_stream_unref(conn->input);

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