Too many open files

[Kai Wang]

Solved. Instead of  "user.username", you delete "+user.username".


Kai Wang wrote:
>
> I actually changed the nofile by editing the /etc/security/limits.conf 
> file. It was only 1024. I have increased it to be bigger than the 
> total number of messages the test user has. The test user account 
> contains 760+ folders and 76000+ messages. I restore the user and 
> deleted it again. The problem remains.
>
> [root at lms2 ~]# su - cyrus
> -bash-3.00$ ulimit -a
> core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
> data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
> file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
> pending signals                 (-i) 1024
> max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 32
> max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
> open files                      (-n) 131072
> pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8
> POSIX message queues     (bytes, -q) 819200
> stack size              (kbytes, -s) 10240
> cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
> max user processes              (-u) 59390
> virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited
> file locks                      (-x) unlimited
>
>
> Zachariah Mully wrote:
>> 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
>>   
>

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