Re: How to raise the open file descriptor limit for slapd?

[David Landgren <david@landgren.net>]

matthew sporleder wrote:
> You should be able to set ulimit values in your daemon's init script,
> or set them system-wide.

Not quite. I have already adjusted ulimits for slapd. Before, I 
specified nothing, and started receiving

Sep 29 15:26:30 ns1 slapd[3244]: daemon: accept(6) failed errno=24 (Too 
many open files)

We then added

	ulimit -n 4096

to the top of the init.d startup script and restarted slapd. All that 
did was to change the message. Now I get

Oct  3 06:27:02 ns1 slapd[11703]: daemon: 1024 beyond descriptor table 
size 1024

Hence my suspicion that I do need to recompile slapd to resize the 
descriptor table. If this is not the case, then I'd love to know what 
the fix is.

Thanks,
David

> _Matt
>
> On 10/4/05, David Landgren <david@landgren.net> wrote:
>
> > List,
> >
> > I have a fairly heavily used openldap-2.2.28 server in production and I
> > am running into the 1024 fd descriptor limit. From time to time I get
> >
> >   1024 beyond descriptor table limit 1024
> >
> > on my syslog host. I found the following message in the archives:
> >
> > http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200303/msg00858.html
> > beyond descriptor table size error
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