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Re: [milter-greylist] died because of too many open files

2008-11-08 by manu@netbsd.org

Petar Bogdanovic <petar@...> wrote:

> > milter-greylist is in the situation where the database cannot be dumped.
> > Shall we ignore that?
> 
> If you let the daemon live he could recover as soon as some fds are
> available again (the situation described above happened during a pretty
> busy hour). It's a suboptimal configuration but the ability to dump the
> database does not seem critical to me.

This is the optimist scenario, but on the other hand, the system could
be running amok and never have more free file descriptors. This is what
will happen if a library has a file descriptor leak, for instance.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
manu@...

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