Hi list, after about a day of operation, dovecot 1.0alpha5 (NetBSD/i386 2.1) died on me with Dec 14 10:53:52 bounce dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files Dec 14 10:54:23 bounce last message repeated 279661 times Dec 14 10:56:23 bounce last message repeated 1071807 times Dec 14 10:56:59 bounce last message repeated 325386 times -- any ideas on what to tune? hauke -- /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Hauke Fath \ / No HTML/RTF in email Institut f?r Nachrichtentechnik X No Word docs in email TU Darmstadt / \ Respect for open standards Ruf +49-6151-16-3281
Florian Schnabel
2005-Dec-14 12:23 UTC
[Dovecot] "pipe() failed: Too many open files" - ??
Hauke Fath wrote:> Hi list, > > after about a day of operation, dovecot 1.0alpha5 (NetBSD/i386 2.1) died > on me with > > Dec 14 10:53:52 bounce dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files > Dec 14 10:54:23 bounce last message repeated 279661 times > Dec 14 10:56:23 bounce last message repeated 1071807 times > Dec 14 10:56:59 bounce last message repeated 325386 times > > -- any ideas on what to tune? > > hauke >it's pretty likely that some service on your machine went nuts and didn't close his files .. what is running on that box ? doesn't have to be doevcots fault at all Florian
Am 14.12.2005 um 11:05 Uhr +0100 schrieb Hauke Fath:>after about a day of operation, dovecot 1.0alpha5 (NetBSD/i386 2.1) >died on me with > >Dec 14 10:53:52 bounce dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files >Dec 14 10:54:23 bounce last message repeated 279661 times >Dec 14 10:56:23 bounce last message repeated 1071807 times >Dec 14 10:56:59 bounce last message repeated 325386 times > >-- any ideas on what to tune?I just noted that I ran into this before: http://www.dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-July/003964.html For now, I bumped the 'open files' shell limit in the dovecot start script to 1024 (default was 64 which sounds a bit on the low side). Any ideas on how many concurrent open files a Dovecot instance needs? hauke -- /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Hauke Fath \ / No HTML/RTF in email Institut f?r Nachrichtentechnik X No Word docs in email TU Darmstadt / \ Respect for open standards Ruf +49-6151-16-3281