Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 04:48:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Zach Copley <snatcher@arlington.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Too many files open?? Message-ID: <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.
Zach
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