[Mimedefang] Problem with MD 2.4 - too many open files?

[Alberto.daSilva at rmb.co.za]

Greetings,

Running MD 2.4 on Solaris 8 SPARC with perl 5.004

Started getting "Too many open files" error.

Nov  7 11:27:53 radium sendmail[4259]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
gA79RiT1004259: <-- MAIL FROM:<> SIZE=403536
Nov  7 11:27:53 radium mimedefang[11167]: [ID 496408 mail.warning] Could
not create /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-3DCA3219-0: Too many open files
Nov  7 11:27:53 radium sendmail[4259]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
gA79RiT1004259: milter=mimedefang, action=mail, tempfail
Nov  7 11:27:53 radium sendmail[4259]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
gA79RiT1004259: Milter: from=<>, reject=451 4.7.1 Please try again later
Nov  7 11:27:53 radium sendmail[4259]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
gA79RiT1004259: --- 451 4.7.1 Please try again later
...
Nov  7 11:27:57 radium sendmail[4254]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
gA79RcT1004254: <-- MAIL FROM:<DebbiP at dbsa.org> SIZE=3076204
Nov  7 11:27:57 radium mimedefang[11167]: [ID 496408 mail.warning] Could
not create /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-3DCA321D-0: Too many open files
Nov  7 11:27:57 radium sendmail[4254]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
gA79RcT1004254: milter=mimedefang, action=mail, tempfail
Nov  7 11:27:57 radium sendmail[4254]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
gA79RcT1004254: Milter: from=<DebbiP at dbsa.org>, reject=451 4.7.1 Please try
again later
...
Nov  7 11:27:59 radium mimedefang[11167]: [ID 125918 mail.error]
MIMEDefang-2.24: accept() returned invalid socket (Too many open files),
try again
...
Nov  7 11:28:00 radium sendmail[4250]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
gA79RZT1004250: <-- MAIL FROM:<LNgwenya at sbic.co.za> SIZE=5007
Nov  7 11:28:00 radium mimedefang[11167]: [ID 496408 mail.warning] Could
not create /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-3DCA3220-0: Too many open files
Nov  7 11:28:00 radium mimedefang[11167]: [ID 934268 mail.warning]
opendir(/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-3DCA3220-0) failed: Too many open
files
Nov  7 11:28:00 radium mimedefang[11167]: [ID 910387 mail.error] Failure in
cleanup line 1283: Too many open files
Nov  7 11:28:00 radium sendmail[4250]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
gA79RZT1004250: milter=mimedefang, action=mail, tempfail
...
Nov  7 11:29:48 radium mimedefang-multiplexor: [ID 731849 mail.info] stats
1036661388.027 StartFilter slave=5 nslaves=4 nbusy=3
...
Nov  7 11:29:52 radium sendmail[4328]: [ID 801593 mail.error]
gA79TqT1004328: Milter (mimedefang): error connecting to filter: Connection
refused by /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock
Nov  7 11:29:52 radium sendmail[4328]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
gA79TqT1004328: Milter (mimedefang): to error state
Nov  7 11:29:52 radium sendmail[4328]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
gA79TqT1004328: Milter: initialization failed, temp failing commands

Current soft ulimit on files is 256, hard is 1024

Will increasing ulimit help?

Thanks,

Alberto da Silva