Help needed with Solaris file descriptor problem

[Adrian Barker]

This afternoon we started seeing 'too many open files'
error messages in the syslog, and our mailscanner
will not process any more emails. Does anyone know
what has to be done to fix the problem on Solaris 8 ?
There was a similar question on the mailing list last
July, but not an answer. Any help would be appreciated
because we now have many tens of thousands of stuck
emails. We are running MailScanner 4.21-9 with Sophos
and Spamassasin.



Adrian Barker, Information Systems
University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
External phone: (+44) 020 7679  2795,  Fax (+44) 20 7388 5406
Internal phone: x 32795
Email: A.Barker at ucl.ac.uk