e2guardian freeBSD No free children, and Error forking preforkchildren

[tra...@cobleschool.com]

I'm running e2guardian on freeBSD using PFsense.  It's not fully supported yet, but i've manually installed and most everything works well.

The issue i'm having is that I'm starting to have these errors in my logs...

e2guardian[6896]: No free children from getfreechild(): numchildren = 160, busychildren = 159, waitingfor = 0
e2guardian[57821]: Error forking preforkchildren extra processes.

My Max Age Children is set for 500
My Min/Max Children is set to 10/160

I know my numbers are high, but I raised them trying to fight off this problem... It seems that the children processes are not being killed like they are supposed to.

How should I go about tracking this issue down?  Assuming the worst and there is some bug, is there a command that I can run to reset the processes once a day in cron or something?

[FredB]

I'm running e2guardian on freeBSD using PFsense.  It's not fully supported yet, but i've manually installed and most everything works well.

The issue i'm having is that I'm starting to have these errors in my logs...

Which version ? 3.0.4 or latest ?

e2guardian[6896]: No free children from getfreechild(): numchildren = 160, busychildren = 159, waitingfor = 0
e2guardian[57821]: Error forking preforkchildren extra processes.

My Max Age Children is set for 500
My Min/Max Children is set to 10/160

I know my numbers are high, but I raised them trying to fight off this problem... It seems that the children processes are not being killed like they are supposed to.

Not very high, I'm using 8000 maxchildren with 5000/6000 running process
You can easily push the maxchildren limit to 500 or more, be careful by default you can't try beyond 1017 ( look at FD_SETSIZE here https://github.com/e2guardian/e2guardian/blob/master/INSTALL )

How should I go about tracking this issue down?  Assuming the worst and there is some bug, is there a command that I can run to reset the processes once a day in cron or something?

Please, can you post your e2guardian.conf ?

[tra...@cobleschool.com]

The latest available on freeBSD is 3.0.4_1

I'll have to get the conf file next time i'm onsite.

Travis

[tra...@cobleschool.com]

# E2guardian config file for version 3.1.2

# removido

# Web Access Denied Reporting (does not affect logging)

#

# -1 = log, but do not block - Stealth mode

#  0 = just say 'Access Denied'

#  1 = report why but not what denied phrase

#  2 = report fully

#  3 = use HTML template file (accessdeniedaddress ignored) - recommended

#

#reportinglevel = 3

# Language dir where languages are stored for internationalisation.

# The HTML template within this dir is only used when reportinglevel

# is set to 3. When used, E2guardian will display the HTML file instead of

# using the perl cgi script.  This option is faster, cleaner

# and easier to customise the access denied page.

# The language file is used no matter what setting however.

#

languagedir = '/usr/local/share/e2guardian/languages'

# language to use from languagedir.

language = 'ukenglish'

# Logging Settings

#

# 0 = none  1 = just denied  2 = all text based  3 = all requests

loglevel = 2

# Log Exception Hits

# Log if an exception (user, ip, URL, phrase) is matched and so

# the page gets let through.  Can be useful for diagnosing

# why a site gets through the filter.

# 0 = never log exceptions

# 1 = log exceptions, but do not explicitly mark them as such

# 2 = always log & mark exceptions (default)

logexceptionhits = 2

# Log File Format

# 1 = E2guardian format (space delimited)

# 2 = CSV-style format

# 3 = Squid Log File Format

# 4 = Tab delimited

logfileformat = 1

# truncate large items in log lines

# 0 = no truncating (default)

#maxlogitemlength = 0

# anonymize logs (blank out usernames & IPs)

anonymizelogs = off

# Syslog logging

#

# Use syslog for access logging instead of logging to the file

# at the defined or built-in "loglocation"

#logsyslog = off

# Log file location

#

# Defines the log directory and filename.

loglocation = '/var/log/e2guardian/access.log'

# POST protection (web upload and forms)

# does not block forms without any file upload, i.e. this is just for

# blocking or limiting uploads

# measured in kibibytes after MIME encoding and header bumph

# use 0 for a complete block

# use higher (e.g. 512 = 512Kbytes) for limiting

# use -1 for no blocking

#maxuploadsize = 512

#maxuploadsize = 0

maxuploadsize = -1

# Statistics log file location

#

# Defines the stat file directory and filename.

# Only used in conjunction with maxips > 0

# Once every 3 minutes, the current number of IPs in the cache, and the most

# that have been in the cache since the daemon was started, are written to this

# file. IPs persist in the cache for 7 days.

statlocation = '/var/log/e2guardian/stats'

# Network Settings

#

# the IP that E2guardian listens on.  If left blank E2guardian will

# listen on all IPs.  That would include all NICs, loopback, modem, etc.

# Normally you would have your firewall protecting this, but if you want

# you can limit it to a certain IP. To bind to multiple interfaces,

# specify each IP on an individual filterip line.

# You can have the same IP twice so long as it has a different port.

filterip = 172.16.1.1

filterip = 127.0.0.1

# the ports that E2guardian listens to.  Specify one line per filterip

# line.  You can specify different authentication mechanisms per port but

# only if the mechanisms can co-exist (e.g. basic/proxy auth can't)

#filterports = 8080

#filterports = 8081

filterports = 8080

filterports = 8080

# Map ports to IPs

# If enabled map filterports to filterip - number of filterports must then be sa                                                                                        me as

# number of filterip

# If disabled will listen on all filterports on all filterips.

# on (default) | off

#mapportstoips= off

# the ip of the proxy (default is the loopback - i.e. this server)

proxyip = 127.0.0.1

# the port E2guardian connects to proxy on

proxyport = 3128

proxytimeout = 30

# Proxy header exchange

# Set timeout between the Proxy and E2guardian

# Min 20 - Max 300

proxyexchange = 20

# Pconn timeout

# how long a persistent connection will wait for other requests

# squid apparently defaults to 1 minute (persistent_request_timeout),

# so wait slightly less than this to avoid duff pconns.

# Min 5 - Max 300

pcontimeout = 55

# Whether to retrieve the original destination IP in transparent proxy

# setups and check it against the domain pulled from the HTTP headers.

#

# Be aware that when visiting sites which use a certain type of round-robin

# DNS for load balancing, DG may mark requests as invalid unless DG gets

# exactly the same answers to its DNS requests as clients.  The chances of

# this happening can be increased if all clients and servers on the same LAN

# make use of a local, caching DNS server instead of using upstream DNS

# directly.

#

# See http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/435052

# on (default) | off

#!! Not compiled !! originalip = on

# accessdeniedaddress is the address of your web server to which the cgi

# e2guardian reporting script was copied. Only used in reporting levels 1 and 2.

#

# This webserver must be either:

#  1. Non-proxied. Either a machine on the local network, or listed as an except                                                                                        ion

#     in your browser's proxy configuration.

#  2. Added to the exceptionsitelist. Option 1 is preferable; this option is

#     only for users using both transparent proxying and a non-local server

#     to host this script.

#

# Individual filter groups can override this setting in their own configuration.

#

#accessdeniedaddress = 'http://YOURSERVER.YOURDOMAIN/cgi-bin/e2guardian.pl'

# Non standard delimiter (only used with accessdeniedaddress)

# To help preserve the full banned URL, including parameters, the variables

# passed into the access denied CGI are separated using non-standard

# delimiters. This can be useful to ensure correct operation of the filter

# bypass modes. Parameters are split using "::" in place of "&", and "==" in

# place of "=".

# Default is enabled, but to go back to the standard mode, disable it.

nonstandarddelimiter = on

# Banned image replacement

# Images that are banned due to domain/url/etc reasons including those

# in the adverts blacklists can be replaced by an image.  This will,

# for example, hide images from advert sites and remove broken image

# icons from banned domains.

# on (default) | off

usecustombannedimage = on

custombannedimagefile = '/usr/local/share/e2guardian/transparent1x1.gif'

#Banned flash replacement

usecustombannedflash = off

custombannedflashfile = '/usr/local/share/e2guardian/blockedflash.swf'

# Filter groups options

# filtergroups sets the number of filter groups. A filter group is a set of cont                                                                                        ent

# filtering options you can apply to a group of users.  The value must be 1 or m                                                                                        ore.

# E2guardian will automatically look for e2guardianfN.conf where N is the filter

# group.  To assign users to groups use the filtergroupslist option.  All users                                                                                         default

# to filter group 1.  You must have some sort of authentication to be able to ma                                                                                        p users

# to a group.  The more filter groups the more copies of the lists will be in RA                                                                                        M so

# use as few as possible.

filtergroups = 1

filtergroupslist = '/usr/local/etc/e2guardian/lists/filtergroupslist'

# Authentication files location

bannediplist = '/usr/local/etc/e2guardian/lists/bannediplist'

exceptioniplist = '/usr/local/etc/e2guardian/lists/exceptioniplist'

# Per-Room blocking definition directory

# A directory containing text files containing the room's name followed by IPs o                                                                                        r ranges

# Think of it as bannediplist on crack

perroomblockingdirectory = '/usr/local/etc/e2guardian/lists/bannedrooms/'

# Show weighted phrases found

# If enabled then the phrases found that made up the total which excedes

# the naughtyness limit will be logged and, if the reporting level is

# high enough, reported. on | off

showweightedfound = on

# Weighted phrase mode

# There are 3 possible modes of operation:

# 0 = off = do not use the weighted phrase feature.

# 1 = on, normal = normal weighted phrase operation.

# 2 = on, singular = each weighted phrase found only counts once on a page.

#

# IMPORTANT: Note that setting this to "0" turns off all features which

# extract phrases from page content, including banned & exception

# phrases (not just weighted), search term filtering, and scanning for

# links to banned URLs.

#

weightedphrasemode = 2

# Positive (clean) result caching for URLs

# Caches good pages so they don't need to be scanned again.

# It also works with AV plugins.

# 0 = off (recommended for ISPs with users with disimilar browsing)

# 1000 = recommended for most users

# 5000 = suggested max upper limit

# If you're using an AV plugin then use at least 5000.

urlcachenumber = 1000

#

# Age before they are stale and should be ignored in seconds

# 0 = never

# 900 = recommended = 15 mins

urlcacheage =900

# Cache for content (AV) scan results as 'clean'

# By default, to save CPU, files scanned and found to be

# clean are inserted into the clean cache and NOT scanned

# again for a while.  If you don't like this then choose

# to disable it.

# on = cache results; do not re-scan

# off = do not cache; always re-scan

# (on|off) default = on.

scancleancache = on

# Smart, Raw and Meta/Title phrase content filtering options

# Smart is where the multiple spaces and HTML are removed before phrase filterin                                                                                        g

# Raw is where the raw HTML including meta tags are phrase filtered

# Meta/Title is where only meta and title tags are phrase filtered (v. quick)

# CPU usage can be effectively halved by using setting 0 or 1 compared to 2

# 0 = raw only

# 1 = smart only

# 2 = both of the above (default)

# 3 = meta/title

phrasefiltermode = 2

# Lower casing options

# When a document is scanned the uppercase letters are converted to lower case

# in order to compare them with the phrases.  However this can break Big5 and

# other 16-bit texts.  If needed preserve the case.  As of version 2.7.0 accente                                                                                        d

# characters are supported.

# 0 = force lower case (default)

# 1 = do not change case

# 2 = scan first in lower case, then in original case

preservecase = 0

# Note:

# If phrasefiltermode and preserve case are both 2, this equates to 4 phrase

# filtering passes. If you have a large enough userbase for this to be a

# worry, and need to filter pages in exotic character encodings, it may be

# better to run two instances on separate servers: one with preservecase 1

# (and possibly forcequicksearch 1) and non ASCII/UTF-8 phrase lists, and one

# with preservecase 0 and ASCII/UTF-8 lists.

# Hex decoding options

# When a document is scanned it can optionally convert %XX to chars.

# If you find documents are getting past the phrase filtering due to encoding

# then enable.  However this can break Big5 and other 16-bit texts.

# off = disabled (default)

# on = enabled

hexdecodecontent = off

# Force Quick Search rather than DFA search algorithm

# The current DFA implementation is not totally 16-bit character compatible

# but is used by default as it handles large phrase lists much faster.

# If you wish to use a large number of 16-bit character phrases then

# enable this option.

# off (default) | on (Big5 compatible)

forcequicksearch = off

# Reverse lookups for banned site and URLs.

# If set to on, E2guardian will look up the forward DNS for an IP URL

# address and search for both in the banned site and URL lists.  This would

# prevent a user from simply entering the IP for a banned address.

# It will reduce searching speed somewhat so unless you have a local caching

# DNS server, leave it off and use the Blanket IP Block option in the

# bannedsitelist file instead.

reverseaddresslookups = off

# Reverse lookups for banned and exception IP lists.

# If set to on, E2guardian will look up the forward DNS for the IP

# of the connecting computer.  This means you can put in hostnames in

# the exceptioniplist and bannediplist.

# If a client computer is matched against an IP given in the lists, then the

# IP will be recorded in any log entries; if forward DNS is successful and a

# match occurs against a hostname, the hostname will be logged instead.

# It will reduce searching speed somewhat so unless you have a local DNS server,

# leave it off.

reverseclientiplookups = off

# Perform reverse lookups on client IPs for successful requests.

# If set to on, E2guardian will look up the forward DNS for the IP

# of the connecting computer, and log host names (where available) rather than

# IPs against requests.

# This is not dependent on reverseclientiplookups being enabled; however, if it

# is, enabling this option does not incur any additional forward DNS requests.

logclienthostnames = off

# Build bannedsitelist and bannedurllist cache files.

# This will compare the date stamp of the list file with the date stamp of

# the cache file and will recreate as needed.

# If a .processed file exists for an item (e.g. domain/URL) list, then that

# will be used instead, if it is up to date (i.e. newer than the unprocessed

# list file).

# This can increase process start speed on slow computers.

# Fast computers do not need this option.

# on | off, default = on

createlistcachefiles = on

# Prefer cached list files

# If enabled, E2guardian will always prefer to load ".processed" versions of

# list files, regardless of their time stamps relative to the original

# unprocessed lists.  This is not generally useful unless you have a specific

# list update process which results in - for example - up-to-date, pre-sorted

# ".processed" list files with dummy unprocessed files.

# on | off, default = off

prefercachedlists = off

# Max content filter size

# Sometimes web servers label binary files as text which can be very

# large which causes a huge drain on memory and cpu resources.

# To counter this, you can limit the size of the document to be

# filtered and get it to just pass it straight through.

# This setting also applies to content regular expression modification.

# The value must not be higher than maxcontentramcachescansize

# The size is in Kibibytes - eg 2048 = 2Mb

# use 0 to set it to maxcontentramcachescansize

maxcontentfiltersize = 256

# Max content ram cache scan size

# This is only used if you use a content scanner plugin such as AV

# This is the max size of file that DG will download and cache

# in RAM.  After this limit is reached it will cache to disk

# This value must be less than or equal to maxcontentfilecachescansize.

# The size is in Kibibytes - eg 10240 = 10Mb

# use 0 to set it to maxcontentfilecachescansize

# This option may be ignored by the configured download manager.

maxcontentramcachescansize = 1000

# Max content file cache scan size

# This is only used if you use a content scanner plugin such as AV

# This is the max size file that DG will download

# so that it can be scanned or virus checked.

# This value must be greater or equal to maxcontentramcachescansize.

# The size is in Kibibytes - eg 10240 = 10Mb

maxcontentfilecachescansize = 2000

# File cache dir

# Where DG will download files to be scanned if too large for the

# RAM cache.

filecachedir = '/tmp'

# Delete file cache after user completes download

# When a file gets save to temp it stays there until it is deleted.

# You can choose to have the file deleted when the user makes a sucessful

# download.  This will mean if they click on the link to download from

# the temp store a second time it will give a 404 error.

# You should configure something to delete old files in temp to stop it filling                                                                                         up.

# on|off (defaults to on)

deletedownloadedtempfiles = on

# Initial Trickle delay

# This is the number of seconds a browser connection is left waiting

# before first being sent *something* to keep it alive.  The

# *something* depends on the download manager chosen.

# Do not choose a value too low or normal web pages will be affected.

# A value between 20 and 110 would be sensible

# This may be ignored by the configured download manager.

initialtrickledelay = 20

# Trickle delay

# This is the number of seconds a browser connection is left waiting

# before being sent more *something* to keep it alive.  The

# *something* depends on the download manager chosen.

# This may be ignored by the configured download manager.

trickledelay = 20

# Download Managers

# These handle downloads of files to be filtered and scanned.

# They differ in the method they deal with large downloads.

# Files usually need to be downloaded 100% before they can be

# filtered and scanned before being sent on to the browser.

# Normally the browser can just wait, but with content scanning,

# for example to AV, the browser may timeout or the user may get

# confused so the download manager has to do some sort of

# 'keep alive'.

#

# There are various methods possible but not all are included.

# The author does not have the time to write them all so I have

# included a plugin systam.  Also, not all methods work with all

# browsers and clients.  Specifically some fancy methods don't

# work with software that downloads updates.  To solve this,

# each plugin can support a regular expression for matching

# the client's user-agent string, and lists of the mime types

# and extensions it should manage.

#

# Note that these are the matching methods provided by the base plugin

# code, and individual plugins may override or add to them.

# See the individual plugin conf files for supported options.

#

# The plugins are matched in the order you specify and the last

# one is forced to match as the default, regardless of user agent

# and other matching mechanisms.

#

downloadmanager = '/usr/local/etc/e2guardian/downloadmanagers/fancy.conf'

##!! Not compiled !! downloadmanager = '/usr/local/etc/e2guardian/downloadmanage                                                                                        rs/trickle.conf'

downloadmanager = '/usr/local/etc/e2guardian/downloadmanagers/default.conf'

# Content Scanners (Also known as AV scanners)

# These are plugins that scan the content of all files your browser fetches

# for example to AV scan.  The options are limitless.  Eventually all of

# E2guardian will be plugin based.  You can have more than one content

# scanner. The plugins are run in the order you specify.

# This is one of the few places you can have multiple options of the same name.

#

# Some of the scanner(s) require 3rd party software and libraries eg clamav.

# See the individual plugin conf file for more options (if any).

#

# Content scanner timeout

# Some of the content scanners support using a timeout value to stop

# processing (eg AV scanning) the file if it takes too long.

# If supported this will be used.

# The default of 60 seconds is probably reasonable.

contentscannertimeout = 60

# Content scan exceptions

# If 'on' exception sites, urls, users etc will be scanned

# This is probably not desirable behavour as exceptions are

# supposed to be trusted and will increase load.

# Correct use of grey lists are a better idea.

# (on|off) default = off

contentscanexceptions = off

# Auth plugins

# These replace the usernameidmethod* options in previous versions. They

# handle the extraction of client usernames from various sources, such as

# Proxy-Authorisation headers and ident servers, enabling requests to be

# handled according to the settings of the user's filter group.

# Multiple plugins can be specified, and will be used per port in the order

# filterports are listed.

#

# If you do not use multiple filter groups, you need not specify this option.

#

#authplugin = '/usr/local/etc/e2guardian/authplugins/proxy-basic.conf'

#authplugin = '/usr/local/etc/e2guardian/authplugins/proxy-digest.conf'

#authplugin = '/usr/local/etc/e2guardian/authplugins/proxy-ntlm.conf'

#authplugin = '/usr/local/etc/e2guardian/authplugins/ident.conf'

#authplugin = '/usr/local/etc/e2guardian/authplugins/ip.conf'

authplugin = '/usr/local/etc/e2guardian/authplugins/proxy-basic.conf'

# Re-check replaced URLs

# As a matter of course, URLs undergo regular expression search/replace (urlrege                                                                                        xplist)

# *after* checking the exception site/URL/regexpURL lists, but *before* checking                                                                                         against

# the banned site/URL lists, allowing certain requests that would be matched aga                                                                                        inst the

# latter in their original state to effectively be converted into grey requests.

# With this option enabled, the exception site/URL/regexpURL lists are also re-c                                                                                        hecked

# after replacement, making it possible for URL replacement to trigger exception                                                                                        s based

# on them.

# Defaults to off.

recheckreplacedurls = off

# Misc settings

# if on it adds an X-Forwarded-For: <clientip> to the HTTP request

# header.  This may help solve some problem sites that need to know the

# source ip. on | off

forwardedfor = off

# if on it uses the X-Forwarded-For: <clientip> to determine the client

# IP. This is for when you have squid between the clients and E2guardian.

# Warning - headers are easily spoofed. on | off

usexforwardedfor = off

# if on it logs some debug info regarding fork()ing and accept()ing which

# can usually be ignored.  These are logged by syslog.  It is safe to leave

# it on or off

logconnectionhandlingerrors = on

# Fork pool options

# If on, this causes DG to write to the log file whenever child processes are

# created or destroyed (other than by crashes). This information can help in

# understanding and tuning the following parameters, but is not generally

# useful in production.

logchildprocesshandling = off

# sets the maximum number of processes to spawn to handle the incoming

# connections.  Max value usually 250 depending on OS.

# On large sites you might want to try 180.

maxchildren = 300

# sets the minimum number of processes to spawn to handle the incoming connectio                                                                                        ns.

# On large sites you might want to try 32.

minchildren = 10

# sets the minimum number of processes to be kept ready to handle connections.

# On large sites you might want to try 8.

minsparechildren = 8

# sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when it runs out

# On large sites you might want to try 10.

preforkchildren = 3

# sets the maximum number of processes to have doing nothing.

# When this many are spare it will cull some of them.

# On large sites you might want to try 64.

maxsparechildren = 64

# sets the maximum age of a child process before it croaks it.

# This is the number of connections they handle before exiting.

# On large sites you might want to try 10000.

maxagechildren = 500

# Sets the maximum number client IP addresses allowed to connect at once.

# Use this to set a hard limit on the number of users allowed to concurrently

# browse the web. Set to 0 for no limit, and to disable the IP cache process.

maxips = 0

# Process options

# (Change these only if you really know what you are doing).

# These options allow you to run multiple instances of E2guardian on a single ma                                                                                        chine.

# Remember to edit the log file path above also if that is your intention.

# IPC filename

#

# Defines IPC server directory and filename used to communicate with the log pro                                                                                        cess.

ipcfilename = '/tmp/.dguardianipc'

# URL list IPC filename

#

# Defines URL list IPC server directory and filename used to communicate with th                                                                                        e URL

# cache process.

urlipcfilename = '/tmp/.dguardianurlipc'

# IP list IPC filename

#

# Defines IP list IPC server directory and filename, for communicating with the                                                                                         client

# IP cache process.

ipipcfilename = '/tmp/.dguardianipipc'

# PID filename

#

# Defines process id directory and filename.

#pidfilename = '/var/run/e2guardian.pid'

# Disable daemoning

# If enabled the process will not fork into the background.

# It is not usually advantageous to do this.

# on|off (defaults to off)

nodaemon = off

# Disable logging process

# on|off (defaults to off)

nologger = off

# Enable logging of "ADs" category blocks

# on|off (defaults to off)

logadblocks = off

# Enable logging of client User-Agent

# Some browsers will cause a *lot* of extra information on each line!

# on|off (defaults to off)

loguseragent =

# Daemon runas user and group

# This is the user that E2guardian runs as.  Normally the user/group nobody.

# Uncomment to use.  Defaults to the user set at compile time.

# Temp files created during virus scanning are given owner and group read

# permissions; to use content scanners based on external processes, such as

# clamdscan, the two processes must run with either the same group or user ID.

daemonuser = 'nobody'

daemongroup = 'nobody'

# Soft restart

# When on this disables the forced killing off all processes in the process grou                                                                                        p.

# This is not to be confused with the -g run time option - they are not related.

# on|off (defaults to off)

softrestart = off

# Mail program

# Path (sendmail-compatible) email program, with options.

# Not used if usesmtp is disabled (filtergroup specific).

#!! Not compiled !!mailer = '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t'

#SSL certificate checking path

#Path to CA certificates used to validate the certificates of https sites.

sslcertificatepath = '/usr/local/share/certs/'

#SSL man in the middle

#CA certificate path

#Path to the CA certificate to use as a signing certificate for

#generated certificates.

#cacertificatepath = '/home/stephen/dginstall/ca.pem'

cacertificatepath = '/etc/ssl/demoCA/cacert.pem'

#CA private key path

#path to the private key that matches the public key in the CA certificate.

#caprivatekeypath = '/home/stephen/dginstall/ca.key'

caprivatekeypath = '/etc/ssl/demoCA/private/cakey.pem'

#Cert private key path

#The public / private key pair used by all generated certificates

#certprivatekeypath = '/home/stephen/dginstall/cert.key'

certprivatekeypath = '/etc/ssl/demoCA/private/serverkey.pem'

#Generated cert path

#The location where generated certificates will be saved for future use.

#(must be writable by the dg user)

#generatedcertpath = '/home/stephen/dginstall/generatedcerts/'

generatedcertpath = '/usr/local/etc/e2guardian/ssl/generatedcerts'

#Generated link path = ''

#The location where symlinks to certificates will be created.

#(must be writable by the dg user)

#generatedlinkpath = '/home/stephen/dginstall/generatedlinks/'

generatedlinkpath = '/usr/local/etc/e2guardian/ssl/generatedlinks'

[tra...@cobleschool.com]

Any ideas???  Still having this problem... It causes interruption in service for the students.

Travis

[Philip Pearce]

Provided you have some memory headroom increase maxchildren.

Also, stop and restart e2g once a day to clear any memory leakage.

Are you still using 3.1.2?

Child handling is improved in v3.2, so you could try develop branch to see if that is better, or wait for next stable (v3.2.1) due soon.

Philip

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[Travis Epperson]

Thanks, I'll definitely setup a cron job to reset the service.  Unfortunately i'm stuck waiting for freeBSD to get newer versions ported over.

[travise...@gmail.com]

Ok, so I did a fresh install on Debian this time. Running e2guardian 3.2.0. I have been running it for 2 days and the logs are FULL with the same error of running out of children... The logs got in the GIGS within a day. What can I check? What are my options? I have it rebooting nightly and rotating logs every other hour... I'm sure something is wrong, but don't know where to start...

[FredB]

Do you use our debian package ? If yes please post your maxchildren value

[Travis Epperson]

I am using the Debian package.  I have maxchildren = 380.

[FredB]

Ok, for beginning try with maxchildren = 1000

[Travis Epperson]

Done, we'll see how the week goes

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 9:53 AM FredB <num...@free.fr> wrote:

Ok, for beginning try with maxchildren = 1000

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[Chris]

On Friday, January 22, 2016 at 8:18:18 AM UTC-5, Travis Epperson wrote:

I am using the Debian package.  I have maxchildren = 380.

Also try setting dstatinterval = 60 and then tail or so the dstats.log and look to see if the child count is maxing out. This log also provides some other useful troubleshooting information.

Don't forget to set back dstatsinterval after you're finished or your log will bloat.

Chris

[Alexander Shitov]

version 3.4.3 works perfectly on FreeBSD.