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Subject: Re: Too many open files error when sending to large list
From: Lutz Jaenicke (Lutz.Jaenickeaet.TU-Cottbus.DE)
Date: Fri Aug 25 2000 - 15:39:41 CDT

On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 05:03:46PM +0200, Walter Obergehrer wrote:
> BTW: There is no problem sending mail to mikesch - except when mikesch is in
> a mailing list.

Is there a special nature of the mailing list? E.g. an internal mailing list
of your company organization? Maybe even only an alias with a long number
of entries.

By strolling through the source I could only imagine one cause for
"been_here()" to fail (I went back to your maillog output, it does fail):
When the maximum number of table entries is exceeded, the new items are
not entered to the table anymore and hence they cannot be recognized
as duplicates anymore.

In the case of delivering to an alias, one single "local" process has the
burden to deliver to the recipients, so that the table may be used heavily.

In this case, it would help to increase the value duplicate_filter_limit
from the default (1000) to a much higher value. I know, I am just shooting
into the dark. It might however be worth a try :-)

Best regards,
        Lutz 

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