Re: too many open files (ITS#142)

[makepeace@houston.cwomnes.net]

From: <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>
> Sounds a lot like ITS#30.
>   http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi?findid=30
>
> >Apr 21 10:37:00 7U:postal slapd[2108438]: accept() failed errno 24 (Too
many
> >open files)
>
> A new connect...   apparently the client creates a new session
> (which is unnecessary) and orphans the old session.
>
> As the client really should be fixed, I suggest users of this client
> submit bug report to the client developers.

There is an NT4 fix for Outlook and Outlook Express for this specific
problem available from MS with all their usual caveats.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q216/7/03.asp

An alternative band-aid is to set ulimit -n (file descriptors) way up high,
e.g. 1024. :-/

Paul