Matt,
It's a Debian Stable system, and I did bump up that file and also put in a script on boot up to raise that number. Some of the ideas I found (after doing a google search) suggested changing the inode-max as well but I could not find that in the proc file system. We will see if that solves the problem. Thanks, Ken Rea On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Matt Kettler wrote: > User for SpamAssassin Mail List wrote: > > > > I think this is where the problems is coming in. Looking through the logs > > I found this: > > > > Dec 1 09:13:20 mail spamd[31417]: DCC -> check failed: cannot fork: Too > > many open files in system > > at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Util.pm line 1019, <GEN2184> line 101. > > > > Dec 1 09:13:20 mail spamd[31417]: clean message (-2.2/6.0) for > > jbrugger:2917 in 0.8 seconds, > > 4001 bytes. > > > > > > > > So how does one fix the problem of to many open files on a system? > > What kind of OS is it? > > On most linux kernels you can adjust the system-wide file handle limit using > /proc/sys/fs/file-max. > > > Stealing an example from http://www.linuxforum.com/linux-filesystem/proc.html > > # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max > 4096 > > # echo 8192 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max > # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max > 8192 >
