Heh... and on second thought, this is likely due to a filedescriptor leak, so the below would just be treating the symptom, and only extend the run-time, not solve it.
On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 09:58 -0700, Jesse Norell wrote: > That's hitting a system limit; su to dbmail and run "ulimit -n" to see > the current limit, probably 1024. Then try "ulimit -n 4096" or so > before starting imapd ... or look at where your system sets those limits > (eg. /etc/security/limits.conf on debian) and change it there (setting > is "nofiles" in limits.conf). > > With your wild and unusual memory growth, possibly there is a memory > leak triggered by that failure not cleaning up something? > > > > On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 10:26 +0000, Jorge Bastos wrote: > > > > I also have the output in syslog: > > > > --- > > Feb 9 09:48:45 lira dbmail/imap4d[24857]: [0x9613548] Error:[message] > > _set_content_from_stream(+785): opening tmpfile failed: Too many open > > files > > Feb 9 09:51:31 lira dbmail/imap4d[24857]: [0x9613008] Error:[message] > > _set_content_from_stream(+785): opening tmpfile failed: Too many open > > files > > Feb 9 09:53:33 lira dbmail/imap4d[24857]: [0x9613488] Error:[message] > > _set_content_from_stream(+785): opening tmpfile failed: Too many open > > files > > Feb 9 09:58:28 lira dbmail/imap4d[24857]: [0x9613308] Error:[message] > > _set_content_from_stream(+785): opening tmpfile failed: Too many open > > files > > Feb 9 10:01:51 lira dbmail/imap4d[24857]: [0x9612e88] Error:[message] > > _set_content_from_stream(+785): opening tmpfile failed: Too many open > > files -- Jesse Norell Kentec Communications, Inc. je...@kci.net _______________________________________________ Dbmail-dev mailing list Dbmail-dev@dbmail.org http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev
