Massive Problems (lmtp, db corruption) - Ahh!

[Su Li]

One more thing, the default maxchild is a number bigger thatn 200,000. I don't think any normal machine can handle that. We need to config the maxchild before it run.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Siemborski [mailto:rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu]
Sent: October 31, 2002 10:20 AM
To: Su Li
Cc: Joe Finkle; info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: RE: Massive Problems (lmtp, db corruption) - Ahh!


On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Su Li wrote:

> In master/master.c function void add_service(const char *name, struct entry *e, void *rock)
> add "Services[5].max_workers=6;" before " free(max);"
>
> It will limit the number of lmtpd to 6.

I'm pretty sure the extent of this change isn't going to do what you want,
but I don't have time to test right now.

> I am suggeting, Cyrus should give a change to change the limit in one of
> the config file.

You mean the 'maxchild' directive?

-Rob

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