On 09/01/2015 10:39 AM, Nicholas Lee wrote:
> Are there some epoll issues with lx/ubuntu and dovecot at the moment?
> 
> 
> 
> Sep  1 08:12:56 mail dovecot: anvil: Fatal: epoll_create(): No such file or
> directory
> Sep  1 08:12:56 mail dovecot: master: Error: service(anvil): command
> startup failed, throttling for 8 secs
> 

Sorry for chiming in so late, I've just seen this thread.

I can confirm that dovecot doesn't like SmartOS' epoll(5)
implementation. I noticed this with dovecot from pkgsrc. It used to use
epoll(5) and anvil crashed on SASL authentication. Once I compiled
dovecot with poll(2) it worked flawlessly. Newer pksrc dovecot fixed
this by not using epoll(5) (IIRC).

Since you are seeing similar symptoms, it looks like something is wrong
with the epoll(5) implementation on SmartOS, and dovecot is triggering
that bug.

HTH

Attila


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