Too many open files

[Zachariah Mully]

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 14:51 -0600, Kai Wang wrote:
> 
> Greetings.
> 
> I'm running Cyrus on Redhat AS4. cyrus complains about too many open 
> files when I try to delete a user with large number of 
> mailboxes/messages. I increased /proc/sys/fs/file-max and max number
> of 
> open files a few times. The errors still happen. Actually the user is 
> successfully deleted. I wonder if I should have any concern about
> these 
> error messages.
> 
> [root at lms2 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 2)
> [root at lms2 ~]# uname -a
> Linux lms2.acs.ucalgary.ca 2.6.9-11.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri May 20 18:26:27
> EDT 
> 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> [root at lms2 ~]# ulimit -a 

Under debian with the speedblue.org debs, cyrus imapd runs under the
cyrus user, so you'll want to adjust the file-max for that user, not
just for root (as you did). Edit /etc/security/limits.conf  

Z