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@lms2 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release > Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 2) > [root@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@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 ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
