On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 06:09:05PM -0700, Monte Mitzelfelt wrote:
> I've got a fairly large (45k+ message) being sent to a mailing list of
> about 1100 people. It is getting "qmail-spawn unable to create pipe"
> errors each time the message hits the delivery stage. At this point, I
> also can't seem to ALRM it into sending for some reason. It is running on
> Solaris 7 (SunOS 5.7 is what uname -a reports anyway).
>
> Anybody have any ideas about what I can do? I've got some irritated
> customers I need to help as soon as I can.
You're out of file descriptors. Probably this problem never occurred to you
with small messages becuase qmail-remote delivers them faster than qmail-rspawn
could spawn 'm. Now, with this big message, qmail-remote takes some time to
finish, so qmail-rspawn has time to spawn a lot of these creatures and runs
out of file descriptors..
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
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| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
| C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.'
| Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
