I had this problem occur on a heavily used linux box, I have 2 qmail-smtpd's running each accepting 100 concurrent connections along with 60 remotes, and the problem was caused by not enough file handles being available to the system. Just a thought, don't know but I'd suspect FreeBSD could fall prey to this same problem.
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 07:00, Justin Baugh, KSC wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I just tested this and I was still getting fork errors from tcpserver > > at around 20-22 connections with -m 52: > > > > Mar 11 07:06:51 loki smtpd: 1079006811.868008 Cannot fork: Resource > > temporarily unavailable > > > > Is there by any chance a limit to the number of processes FreeBSD can > > spawn in a certain time interval? > > > > As a secondary note, I notice that I often have very long-running > qmail-smtpd processes doing nothing (truss gives silence until they > reach the 20 minute timeout and return 256). I've cut down the timeout > to two minutes instead....Could something other than client weirdness > or deliberate attempt cause this? > > This probably doesn't belong here: if it doesn't, I'll happily stop > talking about it and move on to the qmail list. > > Thanks, > > -Justin > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Qmail-scanner-general mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general -- Thanks, Ed McLain Sr. Network Admin High Speed Solutions Phone: 205.969.0075 x 104 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
