On 18 July 2002, James Harr said:
> What kind of machine are you running that on? (hardware & software)
> How much system/processor load are you at normally?
> If you are running anything else on the machine?
It's a fairly robust PC (dual 800 MHz Pentiums, 512 MB RAM, one SCSI
disk). It's running Debian Linux 3.0 ("woody"), kernel 2.4.18. Oh
yeah, Exim 4.05. Gee, and I always scold people for leaving these
details out -- how embarassing.
The server is not overloaded -- we get around 1000 incoming messages a
day. The only hard work is sending out these mailing list posts.
> I don't know which OS you run, but you may be able to up the amount of fd's
> open. Try running 'lsof' (if you have it) to see which programs have the
> most open fd's..
File descriptors aren't the problem -- we already fixed that with
/proc/sys/fs/file-max. The problem is the max number of processes; I'm
not sure if that's tweakable under Linux. Also not sure if the problem
is per-user or whole system.
Greg
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