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From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
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In-reply-to: Steve Hovey's message of Thu, 25 Sep 1997 16:00:47 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Weird smtp/port problem
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> 
> 
> I use SMAP on a freebsd 2.2.2R - and a couple of times a day, smap will be
> running, but it wont accept new connections - sometimes there will be 5
> instances running, sometimes 25 will be running.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas of where to look for whats doing it?  It almost
> seems like Im running out of sockets or something, but I dont see any
> errors anywhere.

If you haven't already, try increasing maxusers in your kernel config
file.  This can limit the number of FDs available.  The same goes for
/etc/login.conf - look at this and increase the limits if they look
like that's where they are coming from.

Eivind.