Re: [courier-users] Sometimes MTA crashs and is not reachable

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Maik Brauer writes:

> Hi Sam,
>=20
> so what should I do now ?
> As I can remember, I decreased that value to 20 or 10.
> A long time ago I had 40 and during this time I had no problems with
> crashing.

Look at your configuration and verify that the logger setting is correct.=20
This will only happen if you modify the default log settings, and=20
incorrectly set them.

>=20
> So what is to do, or better what is your suggestion.
> Should I try now to trace the comm.flow or is that enough, what Jason B=
enguerel wrote
> that you will take care of that problem if you have to less processes a=
nd that then it
> could be possible for spammers to crash the MTA?
> Many Thanks again for your help.
>=20
> Cheers,
> Maik
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> Jason Benguerel writes:
>>
>>> I had an old path in there, and when traffic hit 35 processes, it wou=
ld
>>> attempt to log a warning:
>>>
>>> write(2, "WARN: 35 active connections.\n", 29) =3D -1 EPIPE (Broken p=
ipe)
>>>
>>> to the non existent (pipe?) and kill off the parent process.
>>>
>>> This is a bit of a subtle misconfiguration, and only debugable via
>>> strace
>>> when you are actually hitting the ceiling of your MAXDAEMONS=3D40.
>>> (Sam, don't
>>> tear my head off, but would it make any sense to refuse to start if t=
hat
>>> pipe is non-existent or not die if it can't be written to?)
>>
>> Why would I want to tear your head off? This is certainly something
>> that needs to be addressed=E2=80=A6
>>
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