On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 12:29:37PM -0300, Ricardo D. Albano wrote:
>
> I have the same problem.
> I'm running qmail as inbound relay server of a large site, te server is a
> 4xPII 400Mhz - 1Gb RAM, but when the tcpserver processes reach about ~400,
> My linux box crash (Shared library errors and 'no more forks').
Actually, this is more of a Linux issue...
Anyway, try this:
echo 65536 > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max
echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
Regards;
Ricardo
>
> How can I increment this number ?
>
> RDA.-
>
>
> >RedHat 6.1 with qmail-1.03 and ucspi - 0.84.
> >qmail-smtpd is run by tcpserver and the -c value is 2000. But as soon as
> >it reaches 1247 sessions, it is not able to fork further processes, the
> >error message is:
> >
> >tcpserver: warning: dropping connection, unable to fork: temporary
> >failure
> >
> >This value (1247) does not change even when I increase RAM from 512MB to
> >1GB or decrease it to 128MB. My question is what causes fork to not run
> >a new process. I know it is a non qmail question. But someone over here
> >who has already solved this problem may help me or point me to some URLs
> >to troubleshoot this.
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >- Ashok
>
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