my server primarily runs postfix experiencing very huge inflow of mails >60000 per hour. There are some other services that the servers runs like caching DNS etc but postfix being the primary application running on it.
Ram ________________________________ From: Glen Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ramesh Ayyagari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:43:56 PM Subject: Re: What would be the appropriate value for kern.maxfiles On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Ramesh Ayyagari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I have my client system running FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 with 4 GB of RAM. This > morning i have the following errors popping up on the console log - > > postfix/qmgr[94057]: fatal: socket: Too many open files > > Googling for this error, I found this is someway related to the kernel > parameter kern.maxflies and increasing this value can have errors go away. > The present value of this parameter is 24000. I also found this also depends > of the RAM we have on the system. > > what would the appropriate value for kern.maxfiles for a system having 2GB > RAM, a system having 4 GB and a system having 16GB of RAM. Please help > The Xorg meta-package recommends 'kern.maxfiles="25000"' for a desktop system. This is a situation where it really depends on what you're using your system for. HTH -- Glen Barber 570.328.0318 "If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done." --Scott Adams _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
