Re: Exim Errors

["Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:21:51PM -0500, Matt Kopishke wrote:
> Hi, I keep getting errors like this:
> 
> Mar 12 09:42:56 Jekyll exim[7309]: 2001-03-12 09:42:56 14cTXE-0001tt-00
> Cannot open main log file "/var/log/exim/mainlog": Too many open files in
> system: euid=8 egid=8
> 
> This is on our main email server, which gets hit pretty hard.  Does 2.4 up
> the open file limit?

I think the number of file handles is configurable.  Maybe have a look
at linux/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt and /proc/sys/file-max.

Maybe, echo "8096" > /proc/sys/file-max ??  Don't know, never played
with it...

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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>