From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 24 19:54:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9232F16A4DD for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:54:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from firn.edu (mail.firn.edu [150.176.12.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 877FC43D48 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:54:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pdiaguila@hcs.net) Received: from hcs.net (unverified [204.194.36.211]) by firn.edu (SurgeMail 1.9b) with ESMTP id 15743907 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:52:34 -0300 Message-ID: <40DB3165.3040102@hcs.net> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:54:13 -0400 From: Paul Diaguila User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <00d801c45a02$65487ba0$0200000a@SAGEAME> <61e1e14d0406240902321df14b@mail.gmail.com> <000901c45a09$109da970$0200000a@SAGEAME> <20040624165722.GA42149@gothmog.gr> <003d01c45a17$a74ebf40$0200000a@SAGEAME> <20040624190828.GA821@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20040624190828.GA821@gothmog.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com Subject: maxfiles/maxfilesperproc and piperd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:54:41 -0000 Have an appliction (MIMEDefang) that is giving me quite a few piperd when looked at with top. Added: kern.maxfiles=65536 #system-wide limit kern.maxfilesperproc=32768 #per-process limit to the sysctl.conf file, and at the same time, put the directory containing the filese MIMEDefang writes and reads from on a ram disk. Still seeing lots of these: 24849 defang -8 0 26976K 26212K piperd 0:02 0.00% 0.00% perl 24850 defang -8 0 27144K 26380K piperd 0:02 0.00% 0.00% perl Also seeing quite a bit of the incoming email with that's rejected with a service unavailable error, which is likely related. Any ideas of what I should be looking for would be much appreciated...... thanks Paul