Thank's, but this doesn't work.
At 350 tcpserver forks it crash with 'can not open shared library....' ...
'no more forks... etc.
RDA.-
>On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 12:29:37PM -0300, Ricardo D. Albano wrote:
>>
>> I have the same problem.
>> I'm running qmail as inbound relay server of a large site, te server is a
>> 4xPII 400Mhz - 1Gb RAM, but when the tcpserver processes reach about
~400,
>> My linux box crash (Shared library errors and 'no more forks').
>
>Actually, this is more of a Linux issue...
>
>Anyway, try this:
>
>echo 65536 > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max
>echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
>
> Regards;
> Ricardo
>
>>
>> How can I increment this number ?
>>
>> RDA.-
>>
>>
>> >RedHat 6.1 with qmail-1.03 and ucspi - 0.84.
>> >qmail-smtpd is run by tcpserver and the -c value is 2000. But as soon as
>> >it reaches 1247 sessions, it is not able to fork further processes, the
>> >error message is:
>> >
>> >tcpserver: warning: dropping connection, unable to fork: temporary
>> >failure
>> >
>> >This value (1247) does not change even when I increase RAM from 512MB to
>> >1GB or decrease it to 128MB. My question is what causes fork to not run
>> >a new process. I know it is a non qmail question. But someone over here
>> >who has already solved this problem may help me or point me to some URLs
>> >to troubleshoot this.
>> >
>> >Thanks.
>> >
>> >- Ashok
>>
>
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