[Dovecot] 1.0alpha1: too many open files

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 15:49 -0400, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> Dovecot 1.0alpha1 hung up today with nothing working and
> the following spewing to my syslog:
> 
> pipe() failed: Too many open files
> 
> My setup: Solaris 9, just using imap, mbox format.  The 
> various "max" settings in dovecot.conf use the defaults. 
> Suggestions on what to change in fovecot.conf to keep this 
> from happening?

If this happens again, check how many imap, imap-login and dovecot-auth
processes are running. Can you check with Solaris 9 what fds are open
for a process (for dovecot master process)? Looks like with Solaris 10 I
can at least see from /proc/pid/fd/ if the fds are pipes, sockets or
files.

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