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Date:      Tue, 20 Feb 2001 09:28:31 -0800
From:      "Renaud Waldura" <renaud@waldura.org>
To:        <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "Len Conrad" <LConrad@Go2France.com>
Subject:   Re: postfix: No buffer space available
Message-ID:  <005501c09b62$8bd9c920$3902010a@zerog.int>
References:  <5.0.0.25.0.20010220140218.02df9c10@mail.Go2France.com>

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Have you tried playing with:

kern.ipc.maxsockbuf: 262144
kern.ipc.sockbuf_waste_factor: 8
kern.ipc.maxsockets: 4136

The first one looks particularly interesting.

--Renaud



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Len Conrad" <LConrad@Go2France.com>
To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 6:28 AM
Subject: postfix: No buffer space available


> Sorry to bother you hackers again, but two submissions to -questions 
> got no response so it looks like another scaleability issue on you 
> people can handle :
> 
> ================
> 
> On a very busy postfix relay hub, we're seeing this:
> 
> Feb 19 15:00:16 imgate2 postfix/smtpd[323]: fatal: socket: No buffer
> space available
> 
> Feb 19 15:00:17 imgate2 postfix/smtp[684]: fatal: socket: No buffer
> space available
> 
> Can we fix this with a systcl write?
> 
> The server already has:
> 
> # sysctl -a | grep maxfile
> kern.maxfiles: 16384
> kern.maxfilesperproc: 16384
> 
> ... which fixed "fatal: too many files open" pb for this client last 
> November.
> 
> btw, Wietse Venema himself asked me to be informed of how I manage to 
> tweak FreeBSD to handle this apparent scaleability issue.
> 



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