> exim 4.20 sets RLIMIT_NOFILE to 1000 in src/exim.c line 2371
> This can cause problems if exim is spawned from a webserver running php
> which has > 1000 fds open (log files etc). This is pretty common on
> machines running lots of virtual hosts. This really should be set to
> FD_SETSIZE and not 1000.
Note that FD_SETSIZE is specific to select(). PHP allows access to its
logs by spawned programs? Shouldn't it close those descriptors?
I would like Exim only to increase the set of descriptors, though.
If the available descriptors are >1000, why lower them?
Michael
