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?) -- Michael J. Micek, CyberStrategies, Inc. sysadmin. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
