file descriptors on FreeBSD

[Craig Bates]

I've come to the conclusion that this is definitely a mailscanner problem.  If 
I kill off all Mailscanner processes and restart it, then the problem seems 
to go away for a while.  MailScanner is set to restart every 4 hours, but 
this doesn't seem to help.  Does the parent Mailscanner process ever restart 
or only the children?

Craig

On Monday 09 December 2002 10:47, you wrote:
> >So I'm assuming that the file descriptors problem is related to
> > MailScanner dying every now and then.  I have recently installed two new
> > FreeBSD4.7 servers and installed MailScanner on both and both have this
> > problem, so it is not hardware.
> >
> >Sendmail does not give this error on every message, only a few per day. 
> > Are there any FreeBSD experts out there?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Craig
>
> Craig,
>
> Put the following in /etc/sysctl.conf:
>
> kern.maxfiles=65536             # System-wide limit
> kern.maxfilesperproc=32768      # Per-process limit
>
> and add the following to your mailscanner/mta startup scripts:
>
> ulimit -n 32768
>
> That should take care of any file descriptor issues on FreeBSD.