Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 20:21:15 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Zach Copley <snatcher@arlington.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Too many files open?? Message-ID: <199708181921.UAA02184@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Aug 1997 04:48:49 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970818043115.6237B-100000@kiki.arlington.com>
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> > Hi, > > Recently, I moved my mail server from a Linux system to a FreeBSD 2.2.2 > Release system. > > I keep getting errors about having too many files open. This has happened > with both sendmail and pine. It just happened again! This time majordomo > was queueing messages with bulk_mailer to send out to a mailling list. > The list has a couple hundred people on it. Then poof: > > Aug 18 04:21:50 kiki sendmail[5880]: EAB05880: SYSERR(UID1): queueup: > cannot create data temp file dfEAB05880, uid=0: Too many open files in > system > > What gives? How many files am I allowed to open? Is there any hope? > Please help me. I don't want to retreat back to Linux for the mail. > > BTW, in case it helps, the system is a P-120 with Adaptec 7880 SCSI, a 1 > gig SCSI Quantum drive, 32-megs RAM, setup with easy install defaults, > kernel developer (no X). Sendmail is 8.8.7. If you're using ppp w/ the -alias switch, you may want to get the latest version from http://www.freebsd.org/~brian. Charles Mott recently found a descriptor leak (with the help of someone whos name eludes me). It's been fixed in the 970817 archive from above. > Zach > > -- > .^....^. > snatcher@pigdog.org ! .\/. ! > http://www.pigdog.org (. oo .) > ~RoR-Alucard~ `{""}' > > -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org> <http://www.awfulhak.org>; Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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