On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 11:07 +0200, Stefano Fedrigo wrote: > I configured dovecot to authenticate through ldap. When for some reason the > ldap server is not working dovecot writes this message to the system log: > > dovecot: auth(default): accept(type 1) failed: Too many open files > > "Too many open files" is caused by an openldap bug.
Do you know what bug? What does Dovecot log before those errors? I haven't had this problem when LDAP server goes down. > The serious problem is > that dovecot repeats that message a huge number of times, something like 20000 > times per second, until the ldap daemon starts working or, more likely, no > more > disk space remains. I guess I could work around it, but then again no one else has had this problem.. It'll be fixed in v2.0 in any case.
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