On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 13:16 -0400, Joe Allesi -X (joallesi - Coyote Creek Consulting at Cisco) wrote: > [version: dovecot-0.99.11-4.EL4.src.rpm] > > We recently experienced an issue that prevented all new IMAP logins from > occurring. Although it appears that it was due to running out of > available system file descriptors, I'm still not sure what the true root > cause was as I can't replicate the same error in our test environment. > The system file descriptor max was set at (per `cat > /proc/sys/fs/file-nr`) 380081 , and we're averaging around 7,000 in use. > It appears that the main issue was dovecot-auth, so does this appear to > fall in line with the known PAM bug in this version?
Check what the open files are: ls -l /proc/`pidof dovecot-auth`/fd/ Although I don't recommend using v0.99 even if you can fix this problem.
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