Re: slapd: warning: cannot open /etc/hosts.allow: Too many open files

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com> writes:
> Buchan Milne <bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net> wrote:

>> Or ensure that clients aren't abusing connections, and eating up the
>> available file descriptors. For example, one thing to do is to ensure
>> that clients run nscd (so each client creates only one connection to
>> the server).

> Honestly I'm shocked to see nscd recommended given all the nightmares it
> causes people...

Seems to work fine for us for caching LDAP replies on 100 machines or so
(nothing fancy, just straight NIS schema).  Just don't use it for DNS.  :)

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>