/mail.err shows the error below
Aug 12 07:57:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open
files
Aug 12 07:57:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: Temporary failure in
creating login processes, slowing down for now
Aug 12 07:58:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open
files
Aug 12 07:59:46
:)
Few times I came across imap login issues where new users will not be allowed
to login.
/var/log/mail.err shows the error below
Aug 12 07:57:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
Aug 12 07:57:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: Temporary failure in creating login
processes, slowing
.
/var/log/mail.err shows the error below
Aug 12 07:57:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open
files
Aug 12 07:57:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: Temporary failure in creating
login processes, slowing down for now
Aug 12 07:58:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open
files
Aug
imap login issues where new users will not be allowed
to login.
/var/log/mail.err shows the error below
Aug 12 07:57:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
Aug 12 07:57:46 mail dovecot: dovecot: Temporary failure in creating login
processes, slowing down for now
Aug 12
In the past few months we've been having increasing problems with dovecot
timing out pop3 logins.
As best I can tell it gets to the point where it won't accept any new pop3
logins.
The error in the mail log is:
dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
I've researched this problem a number
On Dec 18, 2009, at 4:47 PM, JW wrote:
I've researched this problem a number of times, usually I see suggestions to
increase ulimit.
I've done this a number of times, all the way up to:
ulimit -n 8192
I've put that in the init script right above the daemon start line.
What exactly is
On Friday 18 December 2009 16:00:48 Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Dec 18, 2009, at 4:47 PM, JW wrote:
I've researched this problem a number of times, usually I see suggestions
to increase ulimit.
I've done this a number of times, all the way up to:
ulimit -n 8192
I've put that in the
On Dec 18, 2009, at 5:46 PM, JW wrote:
I'm sorry, I forgot to specify that I was using Debian Linux:
echo -n Starting $DESC: $NAME
ulimit -n 8192
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec $DAEMON
Well, this seemed to work in Debian unstable.. So maybe the
JW wrote:
On Friday 18 December 2009 16:00:48 Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Dec 18, 2009, at 4:47 PM, JW wrote:
I've researched this problem a number of times, usually I see suggestions
to increase ulimit.
I've done this a number of times, all the way up to:
ulimit -n 8192
I've put that
On Dec 18, 2009, at 6:12 PM, Mario Antonio wrote:
JW wrote:You could try:
/etc/security/limits.conf
your_dovecot_user soft nofile 524288
your_dovecot_user hard nofile 524288
I think these are read by PAM when user logs in. Dovecot never uses them. I'm
not sure if even setting root's
On 12/18/2009, JW (j...@mailsw.com) wrote:
I'm sorry, I forgot to specify that I was using Debian Linux:
You also forgot the bare neceesities, like dovecot version, dovecot -n
output and log entries exhibiting the problem.
I'm actually amazed at how many people post on support lists and say
On Fre, 2009-12-18 at 18:32 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 12/18/2009, JW (j...@mailsw.com) wrote:
I'm sorry, I forgot to specify that I was using Debian Linux:
You also forgot the bare neceesities, like dovecot version, dovecot -n
output and log entries exhibiting the problem.
And for the
* Timo Sirainen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
You have too many login/auth/mail processes running and/or your ulimit
-n is too small.
It was ulimit -n
I doubt any change in 1.0.6 or 1.0.7 itself caused this.
Coincidence, I guess
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Ralf Hildebrandt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm encountering lots of
Oct 31 11:14:25 postamt dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
errors around midday ever since the latest upgrade to 1.0.7.
The errors appear in pairs like this one:
Oct 31 11:20:01 postamt dovecot: pipe() failed: Too many open files
Oct 31 11:20:01 postamt dovecot:
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