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[Joshua Bernstein <address@concealed>]

Hey Jose,

	I'm not really sure how running sympa with 500 lists could cause a 
problem that way... I mean if on the high side you each list requires 5 
open files, that would mean 500 lists opens 2500 concurrent files, 
thats well under the current ulimit... I suppose the only real way to 
check is to reset the ulimt of max open files to a higher number and 
see if that fixes things...

-Josh

On Sunday, May 18, 2003, at 04:49  AM, Jose Illescas Perez wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with sympa. I have created 500 lists and they don't 
> work. Only work 250 more or less.
>
> How many files open every list?
> I think that I have a problem with file descriptors at level of the 
> operating system. My OS is:
>
> Solaris 8
> 4 Gb RAM.
> 2 CPU UltraSparc III.
>
> # ulimit -a
>
> core file size (blocks)     0
> data seg size (kbytes)      unlimited
> file size (blocks)          unlimited
> open files                  8192
> pipe size (512 bytes)       10
> stack size (kbytes)         8192
> cpu time (seconds)          unlimited
> max user processes          29995
> virtual memory (kbytes)     unlimited
>
>
> The error in /var/adm/messages is:
>
> May 18 13:53:54 dedalo task_manager[1071]: Unable to open scenario 
> file send.public, please report to listmaster
> May 18 13:53:54 dedalo task_manager[1071]: Unable to open scenario 
> file subscribe.closed, please report to listmaster
> May 18 13:53:54 dedalo task_manager[1071]: Unable to open scenario 
> file unsubscribe.closed, please report to listmaster
> May 18 13:53:54 dedalo task_manager[1071]: Cannot open 
> /mailboxes/sympa/expl/webmaster.sescam.jccm.es/subscribers.db: File 
> exists
>
> Please, can you help me?
>
> Best regards.
>
>
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