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denny_snyder : 27/12/01 09:25 PM : Incident created -   Where do I find out what the maximum limit of open files is set and where can I raise it? Postfix is complaining about "too many open files" every once in a while and I need to fix this..... I lowered the maximum smtp process limit to 75 to get some breathing room for now.... but I would like to raise it back to 150 soon to give Postfix the funning room it needs to keep up with the 16K email users on my mail server..... Thanks!!!
Linegod_7611 : 27/12/01 11:25 PM : Reply received -   From http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#moby-linux Running hundreds of Postfix processes on Linux When you increase the number of Postfix processes into the hundreds, the kernel will eventually run out of file handles; after that it is likely to run out of process slots. The following information is kernel version dependent. To set parameters at boot time on Linux systems that have /etc/sysctl.conf, add the following lines: fs.file-max = 16384 kernel.threads-max = 2048 To set kernel parameters at run time, execute the following commands as root: # echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max # echo 2048 > /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max ---- Note: If this answer resolves your problem, please remember to close this question.
denny_snyder : 28/12/01 05:01 PM : Incident closed -

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