Hello,

I'm building a small script which processing incoming and outgoing
transactions via Perl Procmail and stores them in a MySQL DB and sends
out results via e-mail as well.

Traffic can peek to 50 messages per second.  I run them on a small
dedicated server and I still get to the point where I crash sendmail.

I would like to throttle the process not to cause the too many open
files when sendmail processes my outgoing e-mail transactions and
would need good advice on that and surrounding issues.

I'm assuming you'll be fluent in linux admin, sendmail usage and
development in Perl and Procmail.

Thank you.

/Lizardnation

Howdy Lizardnation!

Have you tried running the job under a specific user and then
limiting that user's maxproc or openfiles via their login.conf
file?  Just a thought of a hack!

Looking Forward, denco-ga