Subject: Re: Too many open files?
To: Ceri Storey <cez@necrofish.org.uk>
From: John R. Shannon <john@johnrshannon.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/07/2003 16:04:35
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Yes. No change.

On Friday 07 November 2003 03:52 pm, Ceri Storey wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 03:10:49PM -0700, John R. Shannon wrote:
> > Recently, I've been experiencing the following when I reboot:
> >
> > Nov  7 14:58:06 laptop postfix/master[171]: fatal: pipe: Too many open
> > files
> >
> > I've increased the number of users to 128 in my kernel config, and set
> > kern.maxfiles=3D4096.
>
> Have you tried increasing the ulimit on the number of open files per
> process? You could try placing something like the following at the top
> of the postfix rc.d script.
>
> ulimit -n 1024 # probably overkill

=2D --=20

John R. Shannon
john@johnrshannon.com
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