Re: Exim Errors
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:29:08PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> 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...
Actually, /proc/sys/fs/file-max in 2.2. (And Eric probably
meant 8192, though I don't know that even numbers matter.)
More critically, you may also have to increase the file
handle resource limit (ulimit -n 2048, or so) before the
mail server gets executed, perhaps in /etc/init.d/exim.
(Pray report what works?)
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Michael J. Micek, CyberStrategies, Inc. sysadmin. mmicek@csz.com
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