[braddock]

While well below my 256MB memory quota, I am finding that I am hitting socket resource limits fairly often (every time SpamAssassin runs I overrun dgramrcvbuf and numothersock). While I knew RAM would be a limited quantity, I was surprised at all of the other OpenVZ resource limitations that can be easilly hit.

I was wondering if any other users are hitting their socket resource limits?

You can tell if you are overrunning any virtual machine resource limits with:

grep -v ' 0$' /proc/user_beancounters

which will show you any resources which have exceeded their limit - ie, have a non-zero fail count (failcnt) in the last column.

In my case this is causing socket-related mail.log errors, and I fear dropped mail.

Does anyone else have any experience with how to manage within these limits?

-braddock