From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 12 17:00:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 1465816A41F for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:00:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@webtent.net) Received: from columbus.webtent.org (static-70-110-70-42.tampfl.fios.verizon.net [70.110.70.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7474243D82 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:00:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@webtent.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by columbus.webtent.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9190CFAB5; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:00:02 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Fitzpatrick To: "Michael C. Shultz" In-Reply-To: <200512120757.31052.ringworm01@gmail.com> References: <1134397159.6334.21.camel@columbus> <200512120757.31052.ringworm01@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:00:02 -0500 Message-Id: <1134406802.6334.33.camel@columbus.webtent.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reaching kern.maxfiles X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: robert@webtent.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:00:22 -0000 On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 07:57 -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > On Monday 12 December 2005 06:19, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > Been running this FreeBSD 5.2.1 server since 5.2 was released, never had > > an issue couldn't resolve, especially with the help of this and other > > lists. Now I'm stumped. I posted this issue last week, someone suggested > > I look at: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-kern > >el-limits.html > > > > The problem with reaching kern.maxfiles started immediately after doing > > several upgrades including Perl 5.8.4 to 5.8.7 and other minor level > > upgrades - Postfix 2.2.3 to 2.2.6, amavisd-new 2.2 to 2.3, SpamAssassin > > 3.0 to 3.1 and others. Since stopping and starting Postfix every 10 > > minutes alliviates the issue, I portdowngraded Postfix, amavisd-new and > > SpamAssassin to previous packages and still reach the kern.maxfiles of > > over 12000 within minutes. > > Downgrading just a few ports doesn't take into account their dependencies, > and if you downgrade the dependencies then other ports that need them will > have problems. > No issues with my downgraded ports, but still the issue with reaching kern.maxfiles, I have located this document, could this still be related to my 5.2.1 kernel? Or, is there a way I could see if this is suspect on my system? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=58687 -- Robert