too many open files?

[David Wright <ichbin@shadlen.org>]

Take a look at this...

# ps aux | grep slapd | wc -l
     36
# lsof | grep slapd | wc -l
   3325

That's ~100 filehandles per slapd thread. Do they really all count 
toward the limit /proc/sys/fs/file-max? Or is this just one of these 
wierd things where a utility counts a resource shared among threads 
seperately for each thread?