User for SpamAssassin Mail List wrote: > > I think this is where the problems is coming in. Looking through the logs > I found this: > > Dec 1 09:13:20 mail spamd[31417]: DCC -> check failed: cannot fork: Too many > open files in system > at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Util.pm line 1019, <GEN2184> line 101. > > Dec 1 09:13:20 mail spamd[31417]: clean message (-2.2/6.0) for jbrugger:2917 > in 0.8 seconds, > 4001 bytes. > > > > So how does one fix the problem of to many open files on a system?
What kind of OS is it? On most linux kernels you can adjust the system-wide file handle limit using /proc/sys/fs/file-max. Stealing an example from http://www.linuxforum.com/linux-filesystem/proc.html # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max 4096 # echo 8192 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max 8192
