On 26.3.2010, at 10.47, Masaharu Kawada wrote: > >How many dovecot-auth processes were there running? Unless there were 1024 > >dovecot-auth processes, it sounds > >more like a file descriptor leak and adding more fds will only delay the > >error. > > According to the result of a command "ps aux", only one dovecot-auth process > running on the system. .. > Did you mean that this phenomenon could be a bug?
Yes. There should be no reason for dovecot-auth to have 1024 fds open. > In case it is impossible to update > the dovecot package, adding a line in /etc/init.d/dovecot that I wrote in my > first email > is the only workaround to avoid the errors? My guess it that it takes 4 times as long for the error to show up, but it doesn't prevent it.
