Re: Is there a way to limit number of active connections?

[Philip Guenther <guenther+ldapsoft@sendmail.com>]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Howard Chu wrote:
> > Is there some way to configure maximum number of active connections to 
> > OpenLDAP server?
>
> I suppose you could always use ulimit to limit the number of open files for 
> the process.

I would strongly recommend against doing that for anything but a 
completely static, read-only server if using the bdb or hdb backends: if 
the BDB library tries to open a transaction log file but it fails for 
practically any reason, it will 'panic' the database, forcing a restart 
and recovery.


Philip Guenther