[Mimedefang] Solaris 10 errors

[Joseph Brennan]

--On Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:02 PM -0500 Joseph Brennan 
<brennan at columbia.edu> wrote:

> We put a T2000 into production as an smtp server.  This is the first
> Solaris 10 server we have with Mimedefang running.  The max number of
> slaves is 50.  This is a high-capacity host.  The load-balancer is
> giving it the same weight as some older Solaris 9 hosts and the T2000
> should be overkill for that number of messages.


Answering myself.

It is actually handling much more mail than the others, as much as five
times as much.  It disposes of most messages quickly, and the load
balancer counts open connections, so, ends up feeding it more messages.

I think we're hitting the dread 1,024 ulimit.  Syslog has some "Too many
open files" messages.  The volume has spiked to more than 1,000 messages
a minute just before the errors.


Joseph Brennan
Columbia University Information Technology