Cheryl Trooskin wrote:
> descriptors on the BSD systems where I've checked is 1772; a soft limit
> of 64 and a hard limit of 1024 isn't uncommon in modern unix
Linux distributions have raised this to 1024 and mostly do not use
different soft and hard limits for open descriptors (last time I
checked on RHES 3, Debian 3 and SLES 8).
> without just waiting for errors to show up again? I'm hoping that
> amavis's limit on the number of connections each child can handle before
> exiting will keep things clean, but I haven't explored enough to know
> what's opened when.)
I haven't used Amavis but apart from increasing the default from 64 to
128 descriptors I included a tunable variable "spamd_fdlimit" (to be set
in /etc/rc.conf) in the start script for spamd to allow for even more
open files. The main reason for hitting the limit were the additional
black lists I use in /usr/pkg/etc/spamassassin/local.cf.
ciao
Klaus
