From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 21 15:01:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA22012 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:01:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kiki.arlington.com (kiki.arlington.com [140.174.170.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA22005 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:01:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (snatcher@localhost) by kiki.arlington.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA07299 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:01:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:01:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Zach Copley To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Upper limit values set too low? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, recently I've switched my mail machine to FreeBSD, hoping that it would make a nice stable server. I've been encountering a few problems. The machine in question runs some mailing lists. First, I started to get error messages like this when the mailing lists were queueing: kiki /kernel: file: table is full kiki sendmail[6096]: EAA06091: SYSERR(UID0): Can't create transcript file xfEAA06091: Too many open files in system I eventually figured out that what was happening was that sendmail was attempting exceed the maximum number of files that are allowed open per process, which is a value that can be set with the sysctl utility. The solution was to set the value to a much higher number, which I did. Now I am getting some error messages like this: kiki sendmail[589]: BAA00581: SYSERR(daemon): ... openmailer(local): cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable The other thing is that when I attempt to open a large mailbox with Pine, it crashes and dumps core--something that never happens on any of my other Unix machines. eg: Aug 21 04:41:19 kiki /kernel: pid 1955 (pine), uid 1002: exited on signal6 (core dumped) What I'm wondering is if maybe there are some other upper limit values for kernel, etc., that may be set too low by default. Could that be the cause of these problems also? If so, what are these values, and what can I use to determine/adjust these values? If not, does anyone have any idea what could be causing these problems? The machine is: P120, 32-megs RAM, Adaptec 7880 SCSI/1-gig Quantum with Kernel Developer install of 2.2.2R with all of the defaults, and then I recompiled the kernel as outlined in the Handbook. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Zach Copley -- .^....^. snatcher@pigdog.org ! .\/. ! http://www.pigdog.org (. oo .) ~RoR-Alucard~ `{""}'