On 3/26/2010 4:53 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
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.
Run "lsof" or something similar to see what open filedescriptors there
are. I ran into this same issue...and it had nothing to do with
Dovecot...Dovecot was just unlucky enough to be requesting to open a
file when the limit was already reached.
