[Dovecot] imap-login: socketpair() failed: Too many open files

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 15:34 -0300, Manoel Prazeres wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'am trying to use heartbeat to start dovecot...
> 
> It starts but all the login connections are reject with this line on log file:
> Jul  7 12:47:28 markov dovecot: imap-login: socketpair() failed: Too many open files
> 
> No username/password are asked (using Thunderbird as client).
> 
> Outside heartbeat, dovecot runs fine.

Sounds like heartbeat leaks its file descriptors to Dovecot processes.
I'd suggest fixing heartbeat.

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