Re: Postfix-dovecot-squirrelmail in NetBSD 6.1 RC2 Warning: fd limit (ulimit -n)
Edgar Rodolfo rodolfo...@gmail.com writes: Hi guys, I am testing the rc2 i386, i am learning to use basic mail server on NetBSD, currently i am doing a basic mail server with postfix, dovecot and squirrelmail. The warning that i see: Warning: fd limit (ulimit -n) is lower than required under max. load (7681000), because of default_client_count. then i see in my command line: #ulimit -n 128 This is a recurring issue in NetBSD, and we should perhaps revisit the default limits. It's hard because a 64-processor machine with 64G of ram should have different limits than a beaglebone, but it would be perhaps confusing if they were autosized. So one of your programs (perhaps dovecot) is complaining that it expects to need 768 or 1000 open files, but the limit is lower (but it's not giving it's actual limit). There are three approaches: change the sources to modify the default limits up, because 128 open files per process seems too small in 2013 (hard, have to rebuild, perhaps we should, but not my advice to you) adjust login.conf. see the man page. Someone at work was having trouble with this (for apache), so definitely use ulimit -a to see if it is working. in /etc/rc.d/dovecot, and so on, put ulimit -n 2048 or some such. I am presuming that your machine is big enough to do what you want. If it's a personal service (for a househould or so), it doesn't need to be that big. Beware that lots of GUI mail clients end up with many connections; I just checked a server used by 2 people, and it has 9 imap connections. I would also advise you to ulimit -a and look at all the limits. Probably the file limit is the one that will probably bother you. pgpbdTkraxkfp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Postfix-dovecot-squirrelmail in NetBSD 6.1 RC2 Warning: fd limit (ulimit -n)
2013/3/24, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com: Edgar Rodolfo rodolfo...@gmail.com writes: Hi guys, I am testing the rc2 i386, i am learning to use basic mail server on NetBSD, currently i am doing a basic mail server with postfix, dovecot and squirrelmail. The warning that i see: Warning: fd limit (ulimit -n) is lower than required under max. load (7681000), because of default_client_count. then i see in my command line: #ulimit -n 128 This is a recurring issue in NetBSD, and we should perhaps revisit the default limits. It's hard because a 64-processor machine with 64G of ram should have different limits than a beaglebone, but it would be perhaps confusing if they were autosized. So one of your programs (perhaps dovecot) is complaining that it expects to need 768 or 1000 open files, but the limit is lower (but it's not giving it's actual limit). There are three approaches: change the sources to modify the default limits up, because 128 open files per process seems too small in 2013 (hard, have to rebuild, perhaps we should, but not my advice to you) adjust login.conf. see the man page. Someone at work was having trouble with this (for apache), so definitely use ulimit -a to see if it is working. in /etc/rc.d/dovecot, and so on, put ulimit -n 2048 or some such. I am presuming that your machine is big enough to do what you want. If it's a personal service (for a househould or so), it doesn't need to be that big. Beware that lots of GUI mail clients end up with many connections; I just checked a server used by 2 people, and it has 9 imap connections. I would also advise you to ulimit -a and look at all the limits. Probably the file limit is the one that will probably bother you. Thanks a lot for your reply, i will test that :)
