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Re: [milter-greylist] greylist: accept() returned invalid socket (Numerical result out of range)

2008-06-04 by Matthias Scheler

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:33:37AM -0000, fwilke wrote:
> At about 900 parallel SMTP sessions milter-greylist comes with the 
> message
> \ufffdmilter-greylist: greylist: accept() returned invalid socket 
> (Numerical result out of range), try again"
> (this is near the default limit of fd (1024)) 

I cannot find that message in the "milter-greylist" sources.
My guess is that "libmilter" uses select() internally and is
complaining that file descriptor is larger than FD_SETSIZE.

Please consider to limit the number of concurrent connections
to the mail server.

	Kind regards

-- 
Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/

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