Help... 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? Jeff Earickson Colby College
I found this:
echo "4096" > /proc/sys/kernel/file-max
First cat /proc/sys/kernel/file-max to see what it's set to.
Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> Help...
>
> 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?
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
>
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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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20050911/b7c788fe/attachment.bin>