also sprach vdanen:
> I'm trying to build an RPM for myself so when I do upgrades and such to my
> system I can just install the RPM and make life easy on myself. My
> question has to do with conf-spawn. In Bruce's RPM, it uses this to
> define the conf-spawn value:
>
> fds=`ulimit -n`
> # let spawnlimit='(fds-6)/2'
> echo $spawnlimit >conf-spawn
>
> On my system, this gives me a value of (1024-6)/2 or a value of 509. In
> the conf-spawn file that comes with qmail it defaults to 120 and says it
> can't be set about 255, so the value that comes out of Bruce's RPM is way
> too high... I fixed this by dividing it by 4, so the end result is 254,
> but now I'm not sure if this is a good value to be putting in
> there. Ideally I'd like to be able to hand the source of this RPM out to
> a few friends so they can use it with little to no modification.
To get >255 concurrency limits, you also need the SuSE patch to do this. It
should be somewhere on the qmail home page--<http://www.qmail.org>.
/pg
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Peter Green
Gospel Communications Network, SysAdmin
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