Reaching kern.maxfiles

[Robert Fitzpatrick]

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 07:57 -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
> On Monday 12 December 2005 06:19, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
> > Been running this FreeBSD 5.2.1 server since 5.2 was released, never had
> > an issue couldn't resolve, especially with the help of this and other
> > lists. Now I'm stumped. I posted this issue last week, someone suggested
> > I look at:
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-kern
> >el-limits.html
> >
> > The problem with reaching kern.maxfiles started immediately after doing
> > several upgrades including Perl 5.8.4 to 5.8.7 and other minor level
> > upgrades - Postfix 2.2.3 to 2.2.6, amavisd-new 2.2 to 2.3, SpamAssassin
> > 3.0 to 3.1 and others. Since stopping and starting Postfix every 10
> > minutes alliviates the issue, I portdowngraded Postfix, amavisd-new and
> > SpamAssassin to previous packages and still reach the kern.maxfiles of
> > over 12000 within minutes.
> 
> Downgrading just a few ports doesn't take into account their dependencies,
> and if you downgrade the dependencies then other ports that need them will
> have problems.
> 

No issues with my downgraded ports, but still the issue with reaching
kern.maxfiles, I have located this document, could this still be related
to my 5.2.1 kernel? Or, is there a way I could see if this is suspect on
my system?

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=58687

--
Robert