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crash on db dump (still)

2007-08-30 by Jeff A. Earickson

Hi,

New to the list, but I did search the list archives on this
issue...  I am having frequent crashes when milter-greylist
wants to write out its db file (platform: Sparc Solaris 10,
compiler gcc 4.2).

I started with version 3.0 last week.  I saw in the list where the issue was
"too many open files" and the general fix is to boost the process file
descriptors via ulimit or plimit.  I have done this in steps, going from 
the default of 256 to 2048 currently.

This morning I installed 4.0b1; still running with 2048 maximum.
Instead of getting a crash like in 3.0:

    cannot write dumpfile "/var/milter-greylist/greylist.db-XXdpaOEl":
    Too many open files

I now get this with 4.0b1:

    cannot write dumpfile "/var/milter-greylist/greylist.db-XXn4aOmb":
    Error 0

I checked the permissions of /var/milter-greylist and the db file;
no problems.  Any ideas?

BTW, I saw a bunch of references to 3.1.x releases in the 4.0b1
ChangeLog.  But they aren't available for download on the website.
What gives???

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

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