The original problem was the process limit in the kernel, which was 512 divided by two for users. The solution was to recompile the kernel. I used the kernel-kpkg package to do this. dpkg-kpkg actually worked. I'm impressed. :)
Thanks to all who provided their input and assistance! On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Joey Hess wrote: > > Would fixing this be as simple as sticking a ulimit command in my sendmail > > init script or does sendmail fork off into it's own environment making > > that useless? > > No, ulimit will not help you because linux has a hard limit on the > number of processes built into the kernel. > http://linuxperf.nl.linux.org/general/kerneltuning.html
