It has nothing to do with the amount of RAM in your server. The softlimit is the maximum amount of memory that can be allocated to a SMTP process. This reduces the chance of denial of service due to memory exhaustion. The reason why it needed to be upped is due to the number of shared objects that need to be allocated. Also 64bit processes take more memory. It's not really a big deal.
Hope this helps to explain things a bit. Pretty much everyone who installed qmail goes through this issue. :) t. -----Original Message----- From: John Harmon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 6:27 PM To: toaster@shupp.org Subject: Re: [toaster] OpenSuse 11, x86_64, and SMTP Failures Tren, Thank you, that did the trick. Was wondering if you could explain one thing to me. I have 8GB of memory in the box, my run file originally had a soft limit of 8000000 (which I assume was 8GB, but I could be wrong). I doubled it originally thinking that might be the issue, but 16000000 didn't cut it either. I doubled that to 32000000 and that seems to be working now. Do you have any details to help me understand why I had to bump this so high, and what it means? Thanks, John Tren Blackburn wrote: > > Increase the softlimit in your smtp run file. > > t > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: John Harmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: toaster@shupp.org <toaster@shupp.org> > Sent: Mon Nov 17 18:12:20 2008 > Subject: [toaster] OpenSuse 11, x86_64, and SMTP Failures > > I have an OpenSuse 11 box (x86_64) and everything installed fine, and > without error. The one issue I am having, however is smtp failures. > /var/log/qmail/smtpd shows this when trying to connect via telnet: > > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd: error while loading shared libraries: > libcrypto.so.0.9.8: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot > allocate memory > > I have to say that I can't find much on this. I would really like some > help if anyone can provide it. BTW: SMTP is taking up the port (25 and > 2525), and it shows as listening, but here is my telnet output: > > ns:# telnet localhost 25 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > Connection closed by foreign host. > > Thanks in advance, > John >
