On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 14:23 +0000, Mark Zealey wrote: > Dec 23 14:02:15 mail9 dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
dovecot master process has opened too many files. > The ulimit for the number of open files on these servers has remained > unchanged at 8192 Should be enough.. > and there are no warnings about too few fd's on > dovecot startup. I'm not completely sure that the warning check is correct. I think it should be though. > There weren't amazing numbers of imap sessions open at > the time (only something like 400-500; we've had 1.5k in the past), so I > suspect this is a regression between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7 where you've got a > leak of fd's ? Sounds like a leak, but I doubt it was a regression. Probably you just hit a rare condition. > If it happens again I'll try and get a snapshot of the > fd's open by the master dovecot process. Yes, that would help figuring it out.
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