On 22 Jan 2015, at 14:01, Lauri Tirkkonen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, with a low soft limit on file descriptors, dovecot 2.2.15 warns on > startup: > > Warning: fd limit (ulimit -n) is lower than required under max. load > (256 < 1000), because of default_client_limit > > It could try increasing the limit first, and only report the warning if that > fails. I'm attaching a patch that does just this.
It could .. But somehow it doesn't seem like a good idea to me to do automatically. Maybe the limits are there intentionally. Maybe it's the Dovecot settings that are wrong and not the ulimits.
