From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Feb 16 15:54:22 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 EB30A37B59B for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:54:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aunty@sblake.comcen.com.au) Received: from sblake.comcen.com.au (sblake.comcen.com.au [203.23.236.144]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D49E9132D9 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:53:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from aunty@localhost) by sblake.comcen.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA39240; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 10:57:16 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from aunty) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 10:57:16 +1100 From: aunty To: Jim Weeks Cc: Stuart Henderson , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file descriptors / table is full Message-ID: <20000217105716.F27835@comcen.com.au> Mail-Followup-To: Jim Weeks , Stuart Henderson , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000216190401.A27835@comcen.com.au> <38AABD24.8E54462B@siteplus.com> <20000217093421.D27835@comcen.com.au> <20000216223846.J77186@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> <38AB34CF.3F77D776@siteplus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <38AB34CF.3F77D776@siteplus.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 06:37:51PM -0500, Jim Weeks wrote: > 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. > Why not > kill sendmail > cd /var > mv -Rp /var/mail /usr/mail > ln -s /usr/mail mail > restarts sendmail Copy 9 gigs of mail to the /usr filesystem? I don't get it. The exercise would certainly take my mind of my troubles. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message