On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Warren Baker wrote:
> I am suddenly getting a large number of error messages in
> the panic log which are as follows:
>
> "1999-08-17 16:29:08 11Gk7Y-0008Kz-00 Process 32063 (parent 1) failed to
> create child process to send failure message"
>
> It is a busy mail server running exim-3.02.
> smtp_accept_max is set to 500, but this problem started to occur at round
> about 300 incoming connections.
>
> What should be done to try and stop this from happening ?
> The machine itself is idling.
It sounds as though your operating system has some limit on the maximum
number of simultaneously active processes. Most OS have some means of
increasing this limit.
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