I'm running Evo 1.4.5 and use Maildir format for both my inbox coming from an IMAP server on a Solaris box and many local folders in my home directory (sitting on an NFS server). A long-time problem I've had is when Evo has run for a few days typically it displays an error message about too many open files (see attached). It's hard to get much done, fetching new messages from my IMAP server gets caught. Usually, I must close Evo and do a --force-shutdown, (aka killev) before restarting and resuming work. [This is actually an improvement - under Evo 1.2.* restarting wouldn't work, had to rm -r .gconf directories and go through the whole setup wizard thing and endure hundreds of suddenly-reborn calendar notification messages.] Is Maildir inherently more susceptible to this problem? Would it go away if I converted my Inbox and/or local folders to mbox (it seems like One Big File like mbox would have fewer open files, at least)? Are there other possible settings that could be responsible? (My shell ulimit shows 1024 maximum open files possible.)? TIA. P.S. In every other respect I'm very impressed with Evolution and find it to be useful and well designed. VFolders are really nice.
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