Re: beyond descriptor table size error

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Monday, March 24, 2003 11:41 AM -0600 Curtis J Blank <curt@uwm.edu> 
wrote:

> This may be a stupid question but I haven't been able to find any
> references to it so I'm going to ask, has anyone seen this error? And if
> so, what is happening and how does one fix it? (openldap 2.0.27)
>
> Mar 24 07:30:00 ldap01 slapd[7092]: daemon: 1024 beyond descriptor table
> size 1024
>
> Needless to say, ldap stops working properly when this is occurring, and
> has to be stopped and restarted.

Curtis,

Sounds like your system has run out of file descriptors.  Are you running 
on Solaris?  You can set the number of available file descriptors for your 
system in /etc/system, although there can be issues with using more than 
1024.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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Stanford University
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