On 15.2.2012, at 12.30, Timo Sirainen wrote: >>> Do you see some error message also about "Too many open files", >> >> Ah, now that I grep for it, I see those messages too :) During one hour, >> the messages were logged with the following number of occurrences: >> >> - Twice: dovecot: anvil: Error: net_accept() failed: Too many open files >> - Twice: config: Error: net_accept() failed: Too many open files >> - Twice: ipc: Error: net_accept() failed: Too many open files >> - 43 times: master: Warning: service(ipc): client_limit (100000) reached, >> client connections are being dropped >> - 43 times: master: Warning: service(anvil): client_limit (100000) reached, >> client connections are being dropped > > Oh, right. The error message is wrong. There should be a difference between > the client_limit having actually reached, and an error condition (e.g. out of > fds) that causes a process to temporarily stop listening for new clients (= > setting "available client count" to 0, which makes master think it has used > up all of its clients). I'll fix it to v2.1.1.
Actually this solves it nicely: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/701709f472e9 It simply keeps giving net_accept() failures.
