Re: Error in /var/log/maillog ...

Hi,


Quoting "Walter H. via Info-cyrus" <[email protected]>:

> Hello,
>
> on my CentOS6 I see this error
>
> Jun 12 08:02:33 mail master[1941]: setrlimit: Unable to set file
> descriptors limit to -1: Operation not permitted
>

This is a common error message that is logged on cyrus start/restart,
which is normally followed by a message like "retrying with 8192  
(current max)"

> what is causing this?
>

Cyrus need to handle many open files/connections, so cyrus tries to unlimit
the number of file descriptors on start, which is not allowed on all systems
(depending on OS and/or configuration)


> Thanks,
> Walter
>
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