[Mailman-Users] Keeping process count low

[Amardeo Sarma]

In the meanwhile, I am getting around 200 error messages a day complaining 
about "cannot fork". I have tried various settings of 
SMTP_MAX_SESSIONS_PER_CONNECTION and MAX_DELIVERY_THREADS, but that does 
not seem to help. Does anyone know what the problem could be?

Amardeo.

--On Dienstag, 5. August 2003 19:52 +0200 Amardeo Sarma <sarma at gwup.com> 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> since a larger number of lists are hosted on our server, I am running
> into a problem with the number of processes on the server, which is
> limited. Is it a way out to set some limit on:
>
> SMTP_MAX_SESSIONS_PER_CONNECTION
>   or
> MAX_DELIVERY_THREADS
>
> Any other suggestions to keep the number of concurrent processes down,
> even if delivery takes a bit longer?
>
> Typical errors I get are:
>
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces abc"
>     (reason: 2)
>     (expanded from: <abc-bounces at xyz.tld>)
>
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> Cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 2
>
> It seems to me that this indicates that the maximum number of allowed
> processes has been exceeded.
>
> Amardeo.
>

--
Amardeo Sarma
sarma at gwup.com