At 18:04 -0400 4/19/2002, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
... specifically, we seem to exhaust our open file limit about every 3rd or 4th day. ... It's disturbing and we'll have to do something about it, although hopefully not as drastic as reverting to Exim3. I'm just wondering if any other Exim4 users are seeing similar problems.
We haven't moved to either Mailman 2.1 or Exim 4 (on the Mailman machine) yet.
But...we are seeing a Python-based web dynamic page server (not Zope...in-house) leaving open files behind with a fairly new Python.
We've temporized by having a monitor which does a suitable lsof and counts the relevant open files...killing and restarting that server when the count reaches 1000.
I'll pass along to the (really sharp) guy who is working on that problem that you're seeing something at least vaguely similar. We've been operating on the theory that the problem is in our code, but...perhaps not?
--John
-- John Baxter jwblist@olympus.net Port Ludlow, WA, USA