Open files issues

[Alain Spineux]

On Jan 15, 2008 3:31 PM, Tom Myny <tom.myny at tigron.be> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm having this each day:
>
> Jan 15 09:06:03 zeus lmtpunix[1029]: IOERROR: creating quota file
> /var/imap/quota/l/user.user1.NEW: Too many open files
> Jan 15 09:51:29 zeus lmtpunix[24100]: IOERROR: creating quota file
> /var/imap/quota/i/user.user2.NEW: Too many open files
> Jan 15 09:51:50 zeus lmtpunix[24100]: IOERROR: opening quota file
> /var/imap/quota/f/user.user3: Too many open files
> Jan 15 09:52:01 zeus lmtpunix[24100]: IOERROR: opening quota file
> /var/imap/quota/i/user.user4: Too many open files
> Jan 15 10:34:04 zeus lmtpunix[16510]: IOERROR: creating quota file
> /var/imap/quota/w/user.user5.NEW: Too many open files
> ..
>

Are you sure cyrus is guilty and no simply suffering of another process ?
You can use lsof command to see who open what.

> I've tried the following:
>
> ---
>
> Check file-max:
>
> cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
>
> 359801
>
> ---
>
> Checking ulimit:
>
> ulimit -a
> core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
> data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
> max nice                        (-e) 0
> file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
> pending signals                 (-i) unlimited
> max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) unlimited
> max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
> open files                      (-n) 1024
> pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8
> POSIX message queues     (bytes, -q) unlimited
> max rt priority                 (-r) 0
> stack size              (kbytes, -s) 8192
> cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
> max user processes              (-u) unlimited
> virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited
> file locks                      (-x) unlimited
>
> Set ulimit -n 10000 on start-up script -> No effect :(
>
>
> ---
>
> Changed NR_OPEN and NR_FILE in kernel, recompile -> No effect :(
>
> ---
>
>
> Anybody an idea ?
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
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