'Too many open files' and the Sobig virus

[Adrian Barker]

We are still seeing the 'Too many open files' problem even after
increasing the rlim_fd_max and rlim_fd_cur in /etc/system and rebooting,
and ulimit -n unlimited to the 'check_mailscanner' script. The problem
seems to occur with the Sobig virus, although since most of the
messages that we have queued are the virus, this may not be the
cause. Has anyone else seen this problem ? We are unable to process
incoming external email and are stuck. This is on a Solaris 8 system,
MailScanner 4.20-3.






Adrian Barker, Information Systems
University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
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Email: A.Barker at ucl.ac.uk