hello
here some useful informations
http://posidev.com/blog/2009/06/04/set-ulimit-parameters-on-ubuntu/
Envoy? de mon iPhone.
Le 16 ao?t 2012 ? 02:52, Fasil <mailadmin at cubixys.com> a ?crit :
> Dear all,
>
> Thank you all for such a wonderful support. Hats off to all :)
>
> Few times I came across imap login issues where new users will not be
allowed to login.
> /var/log/mail.err shows the error below
> Aug 12 07:57:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
> Aug 12 07:57:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: Temporary failure in creating login
processes, slowing down for now
> Aug 12 07:58:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
> Aug 12 07:59:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
> Aug 12 08:00:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
>
> I have a dovecot (V 1.2.9) +postfix (V 2.7.0) setup on ubuntu 10.04
>
> # ulimit -Hn
> 1024
>
> # ulimit -Sn
> 1024
>
> # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
> 1238548
>
> # cat /proc/`pidof dovecot`/limits | grep 'Max open'
> Max open files 1024 1024 files
>
> Please advice how to get rid off this.
>
> Fasil.