From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 11 15:34:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aniwa.sky (p26-max12.wlg.ihug.co.nz [216.100.145.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39F8A14D6C; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 15:34:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Received: from aniwa.sky (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aniwa.sky (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA16428; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 23:27:36 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199904111127.XAA16428@aniwa.sky> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Stuart Henderson Cc: Haifeng Guo , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to improve the performance of Freebsd In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Apr 1999 09:52:32 +0100." <370B1CD0.71D54735@eclipse.net.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 23:27:34 +1200 From: Andrew McNaughton Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I have a server running freebsd(PII233,256M,24GHDD),it's > > a mailing lists server and mailing list archive server, it > > will send over 1,000,000per day,I have compile the kernal to > > increase the maxuser to 256 ,but sometime the system will > > told me can't not folk,how to solve this problem . > > thanks a lot. > > As it looks from your message headers like you are currently using > sendmail it might be worth trying out different SMTP mailers - maybe > postfix (as used for the FreeBSD.ORG mailing lists), qmail or exim. > > HTH > Stuart Agreed, but if processes are failing to fork, the immediate problem may be with process limits or memory shortage. Different software may reduce the number of simultaneous processes and/or memory consumption, but the poster will need to learn about process limits still. Check out 'man limits', /etc/login.conf and sysctl if you're not already familiar with them. Andrew McNaughton -- ----------- Andrew McNaughton andrew@squiz.co.nz http://www.newsroom.co.nz/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message