big-* patches and FD_SET()

2000-06-14 Thread Toens Bueker
Hi *, I'm sure it's an FAQ but I haven't found any hints on this until now. >From my days with squid (http://squid.nlanr.net/), I tought I'd now how to increase the filedescriptor limit on Solaris. For qmail I did the same (edit /etc/system and add 'set rlim_fd_max = 4096'). But I still canno

Re: big-* patches and FD_SET()

2000-06-15 Thread Toens Bueker
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> How can I increase this 'hidden limit'? > > > You can try what is described in /usr/include/sys/select.h, but i don't > > know whether this will do something good: The C library might know too > > much about the 1024 internally. > > Raising the limi

Re: big-* patches and FD_SET()

2000-06-15 Thread Toens Bueker
clemensF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ./chkspawn > > Oops. Your system's FD_SET() has a hidden limit of 1024 descriptors. > > does qmail really take up that many fd's at a time? Depends from what you're trying to do. I just checked - sending 200 mails to one of our mail servers (which is a li

Re: OpenMail?

2000-06-15 Thread Toens Bueker
Yiorgos Adamopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it possible to use qmail as the MTA for openmail? Openmail is an > > exchange server clone that uses sendmail as it MTA. > > I think HP's OpenMail is largely based on older versions of sendmail, which > makes it difficult. I think, I used O

Re: Building very large Qmail instalations...

2000-06-28 Thread Toens Bueker
Greg Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm one of the admins of a largish Qmail installation (~60,000 mailboxes) > and the hardware we're running it on it near the limit. > (Sun Ultra 450, dual processor, A1000 storage array) > The system is very IO bound, sometimes with a load average of 20-2

Re: Building very large Qmail instalations...

2000-06-29 Thread Toens Bueker
Mike Denka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could you, or anyone else who would care to join this discussion, please be > more specific re: "Suns filesystems and qmails file operations"? I've done a lot tweaking squid proxies (Sun U2) and therefore had a lot to do with filesystems. You can see the

qq trouble creating files in queue

2000-07-21 Thread Toens Bueker
Hi *, qmail-1.03 with bigtodo- and the big-queue-patch gives this error-message, when I relay mails with smtpstone through it. root@:~# qmail-qstat messages in queue: 1221 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 77 Hints, where to look for a solution? By Töns -- Linux. The dot in /.

451 qq trouble creating files in queue (again) ...

2000-07-24 Thread Toens Bueker
Hi *, when I try to torture my brand new qmail installation (qmail-1.03 + bigtodo + bigconcurrency on Solaris 7, queue on a separate 9 GB disk, mounted with 'noatime', conf-split 521 or 321) a little bit, I get this error message after about 1000 mails: 451 qq trouble creating files in queue (#4

trouble creating files in queue - partly solved ...

2000-07-25 Thread Toens Bueker
Hi *, after testing various configurations of qmail (different conf-splits, with/without patches), I moved the queue-dir to a partition, which resides on two disks - in fact RAID1+0 via SDS. And the errors went away. Furthermore, I learned, that sending via qmail-inject doesn't have these proble

qmail-1.03 on Solaris is broken

2000-07-27 Thread Toens Bueker
Hi *, sorry for nagging you all with this one again, but I really have to find out what is happening here. An unmodified qmail-installation on this machine (and all other Suns I could test) SunOS namehere 5.7 Generic_106541-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine breaks, when I try to relay

Re: qmail-1.03 on Solaris is broken

2000-07-27 Thread Toens Bueker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A scan of the sources reveals that that error message is generated > from the follow C code: > > if (chdir("queue") == -1) die(62); > > The reasons why that could fail are pretty limited in the qmail > scenario. > > o The directory does not exist - installation e

Re: qmail-1.03 on Solaris is broken

2000-07-27 Thread Toens Bueker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > make setup > > > > make setup > > > I installed an unpatched version of qmail - using an > > Ahh. So it's not make setup, but rather > > patch make setup > > Note quite as clean an answer I'm afraid. Maybe I wasn't precise enough: The error appears on the ment

Re: qmail-1.03 on Solaris is broken

2000-07-28 Thread Toens Bueker
John White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Reassured I installed the patched version with all the > > nice features (conf-spawn=2045, conf-split=521) -> Success > > - no error. > > On the Solaris 7 platforms, do you > make setup check after you change conf-spawn and > conf-split? I copied the so

Re: qmail-1.03 on Solaris is broken

2000-07-29 Thread Toens Bueker
Andrew Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The SMTP service may issue a QUIT, and immediately try again, > resulting in a potential loop." > > The actual qmail-smtpd error message re bare LFs is > > 451 See http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html > > which would trigger the above fault i

Re: many processes open

2000-08-01 Thread Toens Bueker
"Chris, the Young One" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ! Have you come across particular problems > ! with tcpserver that lead you to the 'Need inetd' conclusion? > > I didn't say you ``need'' inetd. My conclusion was that with inetd, > there is effectively _no_ concurrency lim

Re: qmail prefered platform??

2000-08-22 Thread Toens Bueker
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the reply - BUT what if I have accesss to a IBM H70 and D40 > configuration - 4 way 2gb ram - against a SUN E450 4 way 1.5G ram and a > A5100 network storage array. > > Which is better - or are they both below a Intel machine ??? Yes they are. Especially