Kevin J Collins <K.J.Collins@???> probably said:
> Here at Heriot-Watt we've just migrated to Exim. The config is
> Exim-2.12 running under RedHat 5.2 . The migration took place
> over the weekend. Today with all the users getting in, the
> machine crashed.
>
> According to the Exim logs, there were a lot of
> "Too many open files in system" entries.
>
> Is this a Linux problem, an exim problem or a bit of both?
>
> Anyone got any suggestions or fixes?
>From the spec, searching on 'open files':
lookup_open_max
Type: integer
Default: 25
This option limits the number of simultaneously open lookup files. Exim
normally keeps files open during directing and routing, since often the
same file is required several times. This limit applies only to those
lookup types which use regular files, namely lsearch, dbm, and cdb. If the
limit is reached, Exim closes the least recently used file. Note that if
you are using the NDBM library, it actually opens two files for each
logical DBM database, though it still counts as one for the purposes of
lookup_open_max. If you are getting 'too many open files' errors with
NDBM, you need to reduce the value of lookup_open_max.
P.
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