From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Feb 16 14:38:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from builder.freebsd.org (builder.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D70537B505 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:38:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sthen@naiad.eclipse.net.uk) Received: from naiad.eclipse.net.uk (naiad.eclipse.net.uk [195.188.32.29]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71625132DE for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:38:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by naiad.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix, from userid 475) id 452F91386D; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 22:38:46 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 22:38:46 +0000 From: Stuart Henderson To: aunty Cc: Jim Weeks , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file descriptors / table is full Message-ID: <20000216223846.J77186@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> References: <20000216190401.A27835@comcen.com.au> <38AABD24.8E54462B@siteplus.com> <20000217093421.D27835@comcen.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000217093421.D27835@comcen.com.au>; from aunty@comcen.com.au on Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 09:34:21AM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 09:34:21AM +1100, aunty wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 10:07:16AM -0500, Jim Weeks wrote: > > Is you mail actually in /var and if so what is the result of du -ks > > while in that file system? > > I've cleared some more space and limited the number and size of emails > people can send through sendmail, and things are getting back on track > for the FreeBSD machine (the BSDI machine has other problems). Next > I'll give the kernel its full 256 maxusers. > > Can anyone suggest the standard procedure for clearing an overwhelmed > mail queue? I've been moving files in and out of the queue directory > to keep its size manaageable and that's no fun at all. Kill sendmail, create multiple queue directories, move files arbitrarily so you don't have too many msgs in any one queue, run multiple sendmail processes to drain the alternative q's "sendmail -q30m -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.1" It's well worth your while installing Postfix, Exim and Qmail on a test machine and see if you feel happier with any of them. In most situations, they're better able to handle heavy mail load than Sendmail. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message