At 1PM +0100 on 20/03/13 you (Patrick Westenberg) wrote: > Peer Heinlein schrieb: > > > Even on midrange-systems it's necessary to set "ulimit -n" to a higher > > value then the system default of 1024. > > Could this lead to this problem? > > Error: > file_dotlock_create(/var/mail/example.com/john.doe/Maildir/.Sent/dovecot-uidlist) > > failed: No space left on device
Not on most systems. Reaching a ulimit -n limit usually causes open(2) to fail with EMFILE (Too many open files) rather than ENOSPC (No space left on device). ENOSPC is only supposed to be returned if the filesystem has either run out of space altogether, or has run out of inodes. (Incidentally, going over quota on a filesystem also has its own errno, EDQUOT (Quota exceeded).) However, check your system documentation, because some systems do strange things. Ben
