Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 23:27:34 +1200 From: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz> To: Stuart Henderson <stuart@eclipse.net.uk> Cc: Haifeng Guo <haifeng@ms.lawton.com.cn>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to improve the performance of Freebsd Message-ID: <199904111127.XAA16428@aniwa.sky> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Apr 1999 09:52:32 %2B0100." <370B1CD0.71D54735@eclipse.net.uk>
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> > I have a server running freebsd(PII233,256M,24GHDD),it's > > a mailing lists server and mailing list archive server, it > > will send over 1,000,000per day,I have compile the kernal to > > increase the maxuser to 256 ,but sometime the system will > > told me can't not folk,how to solve this problem . > > thanks a lot. > > As it looks from your message headers like you are currently using > sendmail it might be worth trying out different SMTP mailers - maybe > postfix (as used for the FreeBSD.ORG mailing lists), qmail or exim. > > HTH > Stuart Agreed, but if processes are failing to fork, the immediate problem may be with process limits or memory shortage. Different software may reduce the number of simultaneous processes and/or memory consumption, but the poster will need to learn about process limits still. Check out 'man limits', /etc/login.conf and sysctl if you're not already familiar with them. Andrew McNaughton -- ----------- Andrew McNaughton andrew@squiz.co.nz http://www.newsroom.co.nz/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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