This kind of message started to fill my log probably month ago:
Mar 12 07:20:08 mail dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
I'm using dovecot on small home mail server 10 users. I thought this is
maybe because I'm using maildir, IMAP
and my daemon did have default openfiles.
I raised openfiles to 2048, but looks like after month I'm in the same
situation.
login.conf excerpt:
dovecot:\
:ignorenologin:\
:datasize=infinity:\
:maxproc=infinity:\
:openfiles-cur=2048:\
:stacksize-cur=8M:\
:localcipher=blowfish,8:\
:tc=default:
My question is, what settings are you using in "real" life?
Is standard setting for daemon class insufficient for certain servers?
If you did get this error message, which server was involved?
Thank you,
--
ico
