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List:       dovecot
Subject:    Re: [Dovecot] Can't start dovecot from heartbeat
From:       Timo Sirainen <tss () iki ! fi>
Date:       2009-11-30 2:40:04
Message-ID: 676765D0-CD1C-4C22-9BF5-C44F609A4681 () iki ! fi
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On Nov 29, 2009, at 7:13 AM, John Gray wrote:

> I get the following error:
> 
> Fatal: epoll_create(): Too many open files (you may need to increase
> /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances)
> 
> Works fine if I start it by hand, I'm guessing it has to due with the
> environment heart starts it in?

That happens immediately at startup? Yeah, there's something not set up correctly.

> My first thought was to do exactly what the message suggests, but my
> kernel doesn't appear to define max_user_instances, but there is a
> max_user_watches.

What Linux kernel version? Looks like the whole /proc/sys/fs/epoll/ doesn't exist in \
latest CentOS (2.6.18 kernel), even though epoll_create man page refers to it..

Anyway, I can't really help much. What heartbeat are you talking about? \
linux-ha.org's? Maybe they have some mailing list and can answer this.


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