From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Feb 16 15:41:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from builder.freebsd.org (builder.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C71DF37B513 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:41:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@siteplus.com) Received: from mail2.bna.bellsouth.net (mail2.bna.bellsouth.net [205.152.150.14]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 725D6132E4 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:40:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from siteplus.com (host-209-215-8-150.cha.bellsouth.net [209.215.8.150]) by mail2.bna.bellsouth.net (3.3.5alt/0.75.2) with ESMTP id SAA28578; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 18:36:00 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38AB34CF.3F77D776@siteplus.com> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 18:37:51 -0500 From: Jim Weeks X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i486) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stuart Henderson Cc: aunty , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file descriptors / table is full References: <20000216190401.A27835@comcen.com.au> <38AABD24.8E54462B@siteplus.com> <20000217093421.D27835@comcen.com.au> <20000216223846.J77186@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Why not kill sendmail cd /var mv -Rp /var/mail /usr/mail ln -s /usr/mail mail restarts sendmail Stuart Henderson wrote: > Kill sendmail, create multiple queue directories, move files > arbitrarily so you don't have too many msgs in any one queue, > run multiple sendmail processes to drain the alternative q's > "sendmail -q30m -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.1" > > It's well worth your while installing Postfix, Exim and Qmail > on a test machine and see if you feel happier with any of them. > In most situations, they're better able to handle heavy mail > load than Sendmail. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message