[Mimedefang] thread_create errors

Stephane Lentz Stephane.Lentz at ansf.alcatel.fr
Thu Oct 28 10:19:51 EDT 2004


On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:22:02AM -0400, B. Tolka wrote:
> Hello All, I am running Redhat AS3 with Mimedefang 2.45,
> sendmail-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.1
> and I keep getting this error. It just starting happening.   Sometimes
> it gives me a socket unsafe error or the error below.
> 
> I saw where David said this was libmilter issue.  is there anyway around
> these errors.
> 
> Oct 28 09:10:46 node1 sendmail[444]: i9SD9tJK000444: Milter
> (mimedefang): read returned -1: Connection reset by thog.systems.wvu.edu
> Oct 28 09:10:46 node1 sendmail[444]: i9SD9tJK000444: Milter
> (mimedefang): to error state
> Oct 28 09:10:46 node1 sendmail[444]: i9SD9tJK000444: Milter
> (mimedefang): init failed to open
> Oct 28 09:10:46 node1 sendmail[444]: i9SD9tJK000444: Milter
> (mimedefang): to error state
> Oct 28 09:10:46 node1 mimedefang[30009]: MIMEDefang-2.45:
> thread_create() failed: 12, try again
> 
>
The error seems to be a big thread_create problem
occuring in libmilter/listener.c (libmilter). 
There are several attempts to create threads (16 ?)
and at the end it's given up issuing 
thread_create() failed: 12, try again ....
Check the number (real-time, max) of threads on that 
machine ..

PS : a folk running Linux reported a similar problem
but he's not runing RH. On Mandrake/SuSE I've never
seen it. How much traffic do you process ? Which 
hardware ? Try to get some recommendations on 
system tuning from RH since you're paying $$$$ .

SL/
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Stephane Lentz 
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