On Miércoles 06 Octubre 2010 17:11:49 Timo Sirainen escribió: > > Ops! I thought limits.conf was a semi-official answer for this issue. > > But you're right, I've been playing with it and looking at > > /proc/$PID/limits and it has no influence. It works for initial dovecot > > process (run by root), > > Really? It does change it then. Maybe the "*" line? I'm pretty sure the > "dovecot" lines don't..
Sorry, I was confused. When started at boot, it doesn't affect, but when I do # service dovecot restart as root, the root lines apply. > > > but not for the imap-login or pop3-login ones. > > That's because these processes calculate the max. number of needed fds > and drops the limit automatically. > > Are you actually seeing error messages about actually running of fds? I got a lot of dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files until I restarted dovecot. > I > > thought the problem was: > > "Warning: fd limit 1024 is lower than what Dovecot can use under full > > load" > > This is checked only at startup when running the master process. And if > dovecot process's fd limit is higher than 1024, then I'd think this > error message goes away?.. Finally, if changed my startup script adding ulimit -n 4096 before daemon /usr/local/sbin/dovecot and the problem has disappeared. Thanks! -- Joseba Torre. Vicegerencia de TICs, área de Explotación
