-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 18 Jun 2005, at 14:08, Ross Gohlke wrote:
> > > Which version of XMail? > > 1.21 from source. > > > What are outputs of: 'lsof | grep -c XMail' and '/sbin/sysctl > > kern.openfiles'? > > james# lsof | grep -c XMail > 0 > james# /sbin/sysctl kern.openfiles > kern.openfiles: 106 I was getting a gradual increase in open files such that maximum allowed would be reached within about two weeks and XMail would stop without any message to indicate it had. > > I ran XMail 1.17 on FreeBSD 4.10 for some time without a problem > > once > configured. Now with XMail 1.21 on FreeBSD 5.3 as of Feb 6, I've > never had it stable due to kqueue and possible hardware > > incompatibilities. I'm considering move back to try XMail 1.17 and if > that doesn't work a move to NetBSD 2.0.2. > > So should I downgrade to 1.17? > Jeff mentioned a patch. Would this fix my problem? If so, where can I > get it? If it needs fixing at all, ie you see a build up of open files, then it's worth trying the patch. Here the patch worked in that open files didn't increase but I would have a system panic within a few days whilst now unpatched I'm on 26 days uptime and restarting XMail twice a week and open files are only hitting around 700 with maximum set at 2816. I'm slowly setting up a replacement server. > > I've had similar errors from CtrlClnt when either command syntax was > > > wrong or had a misconfiguration. I no longer attempt to use CtrlClnt > from a commandline, only from scripts. > > Not sure I understand how calling them from scripts would make a > difference. It's just that it lowers my chances of having mistyped the command. Also some of the scripts can take parameters from a list. David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0.4 -- QDPGP 2.65 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBQrXDNq2RmIodDo7KEQKb/QCZAe8c7iBMmllRvb2dLPaWc2E+MJkAoOND 7zGcFYuYE3e1+r0C0vlkL/9q =bKej -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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]
