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Re: Zmailer problem
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:51:38PM -0400, Luke Galea wrote:
> I am having a problem with zmailer... we had approximately 120,000
> emails queue up for sending in zmailer (anti-virus server was accepting
> msgs too slowly).. (so I suppose they are all in the scheduler queue)..
> All of a sudden it stopped sending any mails at all.
>
> The server has a "max file handles limit of 8192 reached" message on the
> console. A reboot appeared to fix the problem.. but a second reboot was
> done and found it stopped sending again.
You are not saying what the system is, I presume it is Linux from
that message..
You might need to tune your system resource settings up somewhat.
echo 12000 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
If the situation repeats, add another about 4000 ...
> Very little is running on the server other than zmailer.. so my first
> thought was that zmailer must be using up the filehandles.. (but only
> sometimes??? Because after a reboot it worked perfectly..)..
>
> Anyway.. now the box is not sending any mail at all and I hesitate to
> continually reboot the box until it comes up okay...
>
> Has anyone else experienced this before?
Yes. I upped the file-max, and didn't reboot...
> Luke Galea
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/Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>
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