Sorry, and numfile. Means you have too many open files(which explains why you can't open new sockets)
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Mattias Berge <matti...@travellab.com>wrote: > seem to be both lack of RAM (privvmpages) and way to small tcprcvbuf > > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Nathan Hüsken < > nathan.hues...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have installed postfix on a small vServer (256Mb Ram, 10GB HD). I >> installed it with dovecot, mysql and postfixadmin. >> When I tested it, I got lots of "Cannot allocate Memory" errors. >> >> vzfree told me, that I have enough memory. So I assumed a problems with >> open sockets. >> I added >> default_process_limit<http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#default_process_limit> >> =3 >> to main.cf and removed some service I do not use from master.cf. First it >> worked, but then I tried some more load (20 mails at the same time). >> >> I got: >> Jan 15 11:19:53 postfix/smtpd[30335]: warning: connect #1 to subsystem >> public/cleanup: Cannot allocate memory >> Jan 15 11:19:53 postfix/smtpd[26327]: connect from unknown[****] >> Jan 15 11:19:53 postfix/master[26419]: fatal: pipe: Cannot allocate >> memory >> Jan 15 11:19:53 postfix/smtpd[26327]: warning: connect #1 to subsystem >> public/cleanup: Cannot allocate memory >> Jan 15 11:19:54 postfix/anvil[18292]: statistics: max connection rate >> 3/60s for (smtp:****) at Jan 15 11:19:53 >> Jan 15 11:19:54 postfix/anvil[18292]: statistics: max connection count 2 >> for (smtp:****) at Jan 15 11:19:53 >> Jan 15 11:19:54 postfix/anvil[18292]: statistics: max cache size 2 at Jan >> 15 11:15:15 >> Jan 15 11:20:03 postfix/smtpd[30335]: warning: connect #2 to subsystem >> public/cleanup: Connection refused >> ... >> Jan 15 11:21:33 postfix/smtpd[30335]: fatal: connect #11 to subsystem >> public/cleanup: Connection refused >> >> Postfix just needs to many sockets :(. >> >> Below is the output of /proc/user_beancounters without posftix running. >> postfix needs about 100 more in numothersock. >> My questions: >> - Can I somehow reduce the number of used sockets? >> - Is it at all possible to run postfix in this system? >> >> Thanks! >> Nathan >> >> cat /proc/user_beancounters >> Version: 2.5 >> uid resource held maxheld barrier limit >> failcnt >> 9176: kmemsize 5010885 5010885 8270282 >> 9097310 0 >> lockedpages 0 0 79 >> 79 152 >> privvmpages 38214 38260 76800 >> 84480 84 >> shmpages 3445 3445 25600 >> 25600 0 >> dummy 0 0 2147483647 >> 2147483647 0 >> numproc 52 52 164 >> 164 0 >> physpages 9878 9878 0 >> 2147483647 0 >> vmguarpages 0 0 76800 >> 2147483647 0 >> oomguarpages 10119 10119 76800 >> 2147483647 0 >> numtcpsock 14 15 164 >> 164 0 >> numflock 4 4 262 >> 288 0 >> numpty 5 5 16 >> 16 0 >> numsiginfo 0 1 512 >> 512 0 >> tcpsndbuf 140868 144316 1137635 >> 1809379 0 >> tcprcvbuf 139640 143924 1137635 >> 1809379 10 >> othersockbuf 21660 21660 568817 >> 1240561 0 >> dgramrcvbuf 0 0 568817 >> 568817 0 >> numothersock 35 35 164 164 >> 1508 >> dcachesize 337716 341433 1209139 >> 1245413 0 >> numfile 2025 2025 3008 3008 >> 1085 >> dummy 0 0 0 >> 0 0 >> dummy 0 0 0 >> 0 0 >> dummy 0 0 0 >> 0 0 >> numiptent 14 14 35 >> 35 0 >> >> >> > > > -- > Mattias Berge > Direct +46 (0)40-690 3825 > -- Mattias Berge Direct +46 (0)40-690 3825
