Author: robert rotman Date: To: Philip Hazel CC: Dan Kappus, Jim Tittsler, exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] filehandles and such
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Dan Kappus wrote:
>
> > When I first ran this, everything was okay until about message
> > 700, where it crapped out. Exim stated something about not
> > being able to open enough file descriptors to send any more
> > of these messages.
>
> Since each message is sent in a different process, it must be a global
> limit on the number of FDs that a single user (in this case exim) may
> have open simultaneously. Presumably, as a result of all these messages,
> Exim is running lots of delivery processes.
>
> > What is the problem here? Is it with Exim (doubt it) or
> > the operating system setup (Debian Linux, kernel 2.2 something) (possible)?
>
> It has been the case that some operating systems had an unreasonably
> low limit set for the "max FDs per user" limit. No idea if this applies
> to you, but you can certainly increase it (though I cannot remember how
> in Linux).
