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On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:19:24AM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: |
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> > Yeah, ulimit won't do it. We hit this issue with mimedefang, actually. |
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> > Our problem is that the kernel is doing the limiting. We ended up |
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> > having to split things up a good bit into multiple processes to get |
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> > everything working. We also added another machine to the cluster to try |
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> > to reduce the load on any one server at a time. Nothing we did with |
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> > ulimit made a bit of difference. |
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> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-increase-the-maximum-number-of-open-files/ |
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# sysctl fs.file-max |
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fs.file-max = 206524 |
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And tracking fs.file-nr indicates that the total number of files open in |
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the entire system barely exceeds 2000 when the lists are flying. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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