[Gllug] Sending lots of emails "crashes a server"

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 05:16:39PM +0100, Tom wrote:
> Is it likely that a user could crash a Linux server by doing a mass
> mailing?

What do you have in /proc/sys/fs/file-max?  That's the maximum number of
open files and it is possible for an MTA to trip over this, given that
each message in the queue may actually be represented by several files
(depending on the actual application).  If any mail filters are in
place, this can make it worse.

-- 
Bruce

What would Edward Woodward do?
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