Re: dbmail hanging

Alan Hicks <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.dbmail
Organization Persistent Objects Ltd
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On 30/10/2014 08:31, Thomas Raschbacher wrote:
> Am 29.10.2014 um 15:54 schrieb [email protected]:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The /var/log/mail.err file has thousands of this message:
>>
>> Oct 29 10:49:26 dbmail01 dbmail/imap4d[27550]: Error:[server]
>> _sock_cb(+582): 24:Too many open files
>> Oct 29 10:49:26 dbmail01 dbmail/imap4d[27550]: Error:[server]
>> _sock_cb(+582): 24:Too many open files
>> Oct 29 10:49:26 dbmail01 dbmail/imap4d[27550]: Error:[server]
>> _sock_cb(+582): 24:Too many open files
>> Oct 29 10:49:26 dbmail01 dbmail/imap4d[27550]: Error:[server]
>> _sock_cb(+582): 24:Too many open files
>> Oct 29 10:49:26 dbmail01 dbmail/imap4d[27550]: Error:[server]
>> _sock_cb(+582): 24:Too many open files
>>
> Hi
>
> I have a similar problem, but with timsieved -- it seems that my problem
> is caused by monit checking the port (in case of timsieved i do not
> really care too much though and just restart it once per hour for good
> measure).

[shameless plug]
It's easy to check that timsieve is running with Nagios or Icinga, 
perhaps it's easy to adapt to Monit?
http://p-o.co.uk/tech-articles/nagios-plugin-check-sieve/
[/shameless plug]

Regards,
Alan
>
> Do you have anything that checks if your services are alive? If so:
> is it just a "connection open" test or a "proper" imap test ?
>
> I think that sometimes dbmail leaves sockets "open" when there is no
> proper commands sent -- still got to debug that at some point though -
> since I do not have the problem with imapd but monit has a proper imap
> check (and no timsieved check )
>
> Regards,
>    Thomas R
>
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