Milter-greylist

Are you on a linux box? Using bash? If so, whats your output of ulimit -a as 
your milter user? If you are doing linux, is sysctl overriding ulimit? 

On Monday 27 November 2006 07:42 am, shuttlebox wrote:
> On 11/27/06, eclark <eclark@...> wrote:
> > Im with the rest here re use of sockets and the like eating up your
> > limit. Frankly, I think 256 is a bit low for this user, and would
> > probably set it to 512 or 1024. It isnt a generic user after all, and has
> > to support up to ~260 descriptors open at once.
>
> I tried lsof on the greylist process and counted 268 lines in the
> output. I use a 4 second greet pause delay and that means more open
> connections with Sendmail and it seems as if the milter is involved in
> all those open connections even if most are probably just idling for 4
> seconds. I'm not saying that is wrong or anything but in my case it
> means I use up a lot of file descriptors.
>
> How can I get it to use more? It doesn't seem to bother with my
> inserted ulimit command in the init.d script. Can I check what the
> running process uses? This is the start section of my init.d script,
> basically what is included with milter-greylist and I added the ulimit
> command.
>
>         # Start daemon.
>         echo "Starting milter-greylist: ... \c"
>         chown $user $mildir
>         /usr/bin/ulimit -n 4096
>         $binpath/milter-greylist $OPTIONS
>         echo "done."
>         ;;
>
> I also ran truss on the process and it complains about too many open
> files of course but I have a hard time evaluating the output. Any
> pointers what to look for?