My XMail is running as root. And it is a small system with a few users and about 500 messages per day. The machine is old and is running a 2.2.18 kernel
Thanks, Stephan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Davide Libenzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 3:20 PM Subject: [xmail] Re: Problem with to many open files > > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Hartmann, Waehrisch & Feykes GmbH wrote: > > > i have the problem that my xmail server after running for a while responds > > with the error message that it could not open a file. > > The reason seems to be that it holds to many open files (UDP connections to > > the DNS server in fact) and that the system limit has been reached. > > Why does xmail not close these connections? > > When i restart xmail it is ok for a while. > > Are you running XMail as non-root? > Which kind of load are you putting on XMail? > You can in theory hit that if you are creating a huge number of > connections inside a TIME_WAIT period of time. I've never seen this in > real life scenarios, but I experience it during XMail perf tests. But we > are talking of 140000 msg/hour. > > > > - Davide > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
