Hello. I am a new user of exim. I have just installed version 1.92 on my
BSD/OS 2.1 system. It works quite well, except for a small problem I'm
having. I've configured in the queue_smtp option so that it will deliver
more messages down the same connection later. However, I've noticed that
when a queue runnner starts up, it opens many many exim processes -
typically 60 or more. When this happens, many other programs on my system
start complaining about "too many open files" and I cannot even do an "ls"
at my shell prompt. My "queue_run_max" is set to 1. A lot of mail comes in
via rmail in big batches. I've tried to solve the problem by putting ulimit
-f unlimited in my rc script, but even then, exim and other processes kep
complaining about too many open files. Does anyone have any ideas on what I
can do, beside changing my queing to queue_only? I've set it to queue_only
for now, and it seems to be behaving OK but I like the idea of queue_smtp.
My exim startup is exim -bd -q30m
The sysctl kern.maxfiles is 650 and kern.maxproc is 180
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