From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 28 20:10:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E44DD37B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:10:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.westbend.net (ns1.westbend.net [216.47.253.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0677843E4A for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:10:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hetzels@westbend.net) Received: from Admin01 (admin01.westbend.net [216.47.253.18]) by mail.westbend.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g9T4AQ1U081663; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 22:10:26 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from hetzels@westbend.net) Message-ID: <015501c27f01$1b2f3a50$12fd2fd8@Admin01> From: "Scot W. Hetzel" To: "Andrew Nelson" , References: Subject: Re: pop3/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 22:10:24 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.6 required=8.0 tests=QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02, USER_AGENT_OE version=2.43 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org From: "Andrew Nelson" > Hi, > > I've had this problem start occuring > recently and now it's happening some > 10 times per day. > > The entry in the message log is: > inetd[91]: pop3/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated > > I looked up the error and found a source > which suggested we increase the number > of allowed connections per minute in inetd, > but it doesn't make a difference (I have > nowait.2000 now!) > Acording to the "inetd" man page: The maximum number of outstanding child processes (or ``threads'') for a ``nowait'' service may be explicitly specified by appending a ``/'' fol- lowed by the number to the ``nowait'' keyword. Normally (or if a value of zero is specified) there is no maximum. Otherwise, once the maximum is reached, further connection attempts will be queued up until an exist- ing child process exits. So the problem is you need to use: nowait/2000 and then restart inetd with: killall -HUP inetd Scot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message