Sounds like recompiling with a larger number of file descriptors and
then running with a bigger limit/ulimit might do the trick.  In any case,
the number of concurrent policyd file handles shouldn't be less
than the number of postfix instances on any given machine.

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Artem Bokhan wrote:

>
>> Frankly, I think you'd have to have a pretty hefty amount of processing
>> to run that many email connections plus policyd plus whatever else might
>> be running on your mail server (amavisd, spamassassin, etc.) to sustain
>> that kind of
>> load.
> I have two MXes with 4 cores of Xeon 5130  (2.00GHz) each with 8Gb of RAM.
> Quite enough when all software is writen with C, so no bottlenecks like
> with spamassassin.
> The system is 50-70% iddleing, no disks bottlenecks.
>
>> Currently, we have two mail gateways and run spamassassin on a
>> separate cluster of machines, and will
>> likely expand to additional servers.  The added advantage is that with
>> enough servers, you can take one down for maintenance or one can fail
>> without generally having a bottleneck in the throughput.
>>

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