Interesting.... But I used to have dovecot work with the same number of users (up to 9,000) and with the default number of fole descriptors with no problems... I can give it a try, though.
I can't upgrade dovecot until Red Hat releases a new version. On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Steffen Kaiser < skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Mario Gomide wrote: > > I'm using Dovecot 1.0.7 in RHEL 5.4 64bits as a IMAP/POP3 server. >> > > and stuff. After a while it times out and doesn't connect. Then the >> clients >> (e.g. outlook, thunderbird) start taking long to connect and then they >> timeout. Important: Only IMAP connections timeout! POP3 continues ok. This >> latency keeps on going until dovecot finally hangs (after about 10 to 15 >> minutes). The problem is solved when I restart/reload dovecot. >> > > I had similiar problems once. The problem went away after I increased the > maximum number of open file descriptors (ulimit -n). > > Maybe, you should upgrade, v1.0 is pretty old. > > > Regards, > > - -- Steffen Kaiser > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEVAwUBS0XjFb+Vh58GPL/cAQJyVQgApvvpmRWvk+tTepmMrKhMjUxlqBOKZFDF > rBmzJ7EvwTCnQziSMlH/ckvg9Z/ccNofBgaosTLXGik9P6jZFzTAcDu6ztNvPYPt > 2ldnvDJhUoQCUL+8i594pOy5vs1edm5Tg36d/XHuexL+WiG3a3NuOBu2AgkuVfoa > HLk4FNKfKQagquHcpG1z3+R9QJC4rYarg+lU7rNAebF0hEkCyNsZn6DsvRITP4BQ > qlauMRS6jQ35o/AYMXuRfJrnektFUFUbT1oyRKwLRF9O3FcSt5fZZ0p6Mv4JLtXZ > u8g40iYSF3nfo7J0SFlJjEVbqRjZMtlpNrhPLroa26ztk0GR9YNwtQ== > =cyU4 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
