On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 10:47 +0200, Antonio Casado Rodríguez wrote: > Hi, other error in "open files": > > dovecot: Oct 20 10:52:36 Fatal: > execv(/usr/local/sbin/post-login-imap-dovecot) failed: Too many open files > dovecot: Oct 20 10:52:36 Error: child 1038 (imap) returned error 84 > (exec() failed)
This comes from the dovecot master process. > open files (-n) 1024 And it's limited by this. > Now, we have this: > # lsof -p `cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid` | wc -l > 1018 So increase ulimit -n before starting Dovecot. What Dovecot version are you using? If v1.1+, doesn't it give a warning at startup that your limit is too low?
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