Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 20:03:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Joseph Stein <joes@spiritone.com> Cc: brian@awfulhak.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Earlier problems with ppp and 'Too many open files' Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970702200255.6427B-100000@shell.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <199707022102.OAA00603@joes.users.spiritone.com>
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On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Joseph Stein wrote: > > Since it seems to happen while doing a "make world", it shouldn't be a > > problem, because most people login to do a make world. > > Well, I've done some more investigation. > > Like I indicated before, this is a single-user machine. However, > I do the following from /etc/rc: > > -- start userland PPP > -- start fetchmail-3.9.8 > > So, on boot-up, fetchmail forces the connection to my ISP (desired > action), and transfers mail. > > I just recently enabled FEATURE(local_procmail) in sendmail (thinking > that maybe the problems with 'unable to fork' were because I was > calling procmail from my .forward file). > > When I reconnected (just to get make world done without a hitch, which it > did (finally)), I had 145 messages in my queue. > > Guess what? > > While sendmail/procmail were digesting the inbound mail, I got > > Out of processes > > So now, I'm off to find out what to tweak to increase the number of > available processes and see if that takes care of the problem. > > joe > Your fetchmail-sendmail-procmail system probably forks two processes for each message, all at once. Tom
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