[Mimedefang] MimeDefang 2.27 Too many open files.

[David F. Skoll]

On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Brad Dameron wrote:

> Dec  5 14:46:07 smtp mimedefang[9381]: MXCommand: socket: Too many open
> files
> Dec  5 14:46:07 smtp mimedefang[9381]: mfconnect: No free slaves

> I set the global file max to 16384 as well. But still at a loss as to what
> to do.

You want to look at "ulimit -n".  But you're seriously stressing the
system with that many open files; you may have to load-balance across
a couple of servers.

--
David.