[Mimedefang] Too many files open

[Trevor]

Thanks, this change seems to have fixed the problem.

Regards,
Trevor 

-----Original Message-----
From: mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com
[mailto:mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com] On Behalf Of David F.
Skoll
Sent: 04 April 2006 06:14 PM
To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Too many files open

Trevor wrote:

> I have two Solaris servers one running Solaris 8 and the other Solaris 10.
> Recently they both have been logging the following:
> I've added ulimit -n 1024 even tried 2048,  I also added set 
> rlim_fd_max=4096, set rlim_fd_cur=1024 into /etc/system none of this 
> seems to help.
> This error just started. It's causing major problems as I have to 
> restart mimedefang and sendmail around 8 times a day.
> I'm running mimedefang 2.56 with spamassassin 3.1.1, I have limited 
> sendmail's child processes to 500.
> Each server averages around 80 000 emails a day.

That's very unusual; I would not expect you to hit file limits.

You may want to try providing the "-C" flag when you invoke mimedefang.
See the mimedefang(8) man page.

Regards,

David.
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