On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Roger Luethi wrote:
> occasionally, i get messages like
>
> 1998-11-22 22:11:01 0zhgmV-0007Lh-00 failed to open database lock file
> /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: File table overflow
>
> this is on exim 2.00 on linux. increasing the file limit is an obvious
> solution, but i wonder what causes it. are there known conditions where
> exim (e.g. by spawning) uses something in the magnitude of hundreds of open
> files?
There was a problem in that Exim did not limit the number of lookup
files it kept open (for efficiency, in case they were used several
times). This is fixed in the current testing release by implementing a
local limit.
You would only get the problem if your configuration did something like
open a different file for each domain, and it encountered a message
containing many different domains.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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