Mike,
Look at the MAN pages for tcpserver there is a FLAH -c for connection
the Default is set at 40..
Sean
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 5:22 PM
Subject: too many smtp connections still open
> I am running some tests on qmail and I have a perl script which sends
> email via SMTP to another server. I noticed that my script crashes
> after sending about 40 or 50 emails whe trying to select a socket. On
> doing a netstat -a on the server where qmail is running there are many
>
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:smtp dev.tanjian.com:2707
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:1258 dev.tanjian.com:auth
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:1257 dev.tanjian.com:auth
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:1256 dev.tanjian.com:auth
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:smtp dev.tanjian.com:2704
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:1255 dev.tanjian.com:auth
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:smtp dev.tanjian.com:2703
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:1254 dev.tanjian.com:auth
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:smtp dev.tanjian.com:2702
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:1253 dev.tanjian.com:auth
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:smtp dev.tanjian.com:2701
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:1252 dev.tanjian.com:auth
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:smtp dev.tanjian.com:2700
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:1251 dev.tanjian.com:auth
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:smtp dev.tanjian.com:2699
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:1250 dev.tanjian.com:auth
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:smtp dev.tanjian.com:2698
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:1249 dev.tanjian.com:auth
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:1248 dev.tanjian.com:auth
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:smtp dev.tanjian.com:2696
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:1247 dev.tanjian.com:auth
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:1246 dev.tanjian.com:auth
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:smtp dev.tanjian.com:2694
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:1245 dev.tanjian.com:auth
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:smtp dev.tanjian.com:2693
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:1244 dev.tanjian.com:auth
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:smtp dev.tanjian.com:2692
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 mailtest:1243 dev.tanjian.com:auth
> TIME_WAIT
>
> if I throttle my script and sleep long enough for these to close it
> seems to work.. UNfortunatelt I'm trying to do some timings on resouce
> requirements on qmail-local and it does not provide enough of a "real"
> scenario to work. I would appreciate any suggestions to resolving this
> problem.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
>
>
