Steve,

Dbmail doesn't need more segments than processes running. The fact that
we're sometimes seeing this behaviour indicates a bug in dbmail.

Steve Cox wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This is teetering on "unrelated", but my /proc/sys/kernel/shmmni was set
> to 4096, and I was getting the same error. I've increased it to 16384.
> Is this too extreme? Is it going to cause any potential issues for my
> system? And how many shared segments does DBmail need? (SVN 2304/Debian
> Etch/PGSQL)
> 
> 
> 
>>From "man *shmget*":
> 
> ENOSPC All possible shared memory id's have been taken
> (SHMMNI), or allocating a segment of the requested size would cause the
> system to exceed the system-wide limit on shared memory (SHMALL).
> 
> 
> Check/adjust /proc/sys/kernel/shm*
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 10:22 +0200, Herr Lars Kneschke wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> What could be the reason for this error message?
>>
>> I get this error message on a ubuntu edgy eft system with self
>> compiled dbmail and libsieve packages.
>>
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