Re: opendkim-2.1.0.Beta2 Too many open files

From: Murray S. Kucherawy <msk_at_blackops.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 23:04:04 -0700 (PDT)

On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, ca35763+dkim_at_realsimplemail.com wrote:
> Had a problem this afternoon. The milter crashed after several "Too
> many open files" messages.

Interesting... I take it you'd not seen this before with prior versions.

> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.

Also not good.

> gdb says no debugging symbols found. I'm not sure why. It was built with:
>
> ./configure \
> --with-milter \
> --with-openssl \
> --with-unbound \
> --enable-debug \
> --enable-stats

"--enable-debug" probably does the debug build but perhaps during "make
install" the generated makefile strips the debugging symbols.

> It had been running about 6 days. About 600 emails/day.
>[...]
> Let me know if there is anything I should look for or try.

Sometime tomorrow, can you do an "lsof" on the running daemon and send the
output? If there's a descriptor leak, this would give a hint as to where
it is.

Thanks for the report, even though it's not good news... :-)

-MSK
Received on Thu Jun 03 2010 - 06:04:21 PST

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