RE: beyond descriptor table size error

["Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS)" <KeHall@exchange.ml.com>]

Have a look at /proc/sys/fs/file-nr and file-max.  You can increase the number of open files by echoing a new number into file-max.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curtis J Blank [mailto:curt@uwm.edu]
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 1:30 PM
> To: Quanah Gibson-Mount
> Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: Re: beyond descriptor table size error
> 
> 
> Thanks for the reply, no, SuSE Linux 2.4.18, sorry, I should have
> mentioned that.
> 
> -Curt
> 
> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> > 
> > --On Monday, March 24, 2003 11:41 AM -0600 Curtis J Blank 
> <curt@uwm.edu>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > This may be a stupid question but I haven't been able to find any
> > > references to it so I'm going to ask, has anyone seen 
> this error? And if
> > > so, what is happening and how does one fix it? (openldap 2.0.27)
> > >
> > > Mar 24 07:30:00 ldap01 slapd[7092]: daemon: 1024 beyond 
> descriptor table
> > > size 1024
> > >
> > > Needless to say, ldap stops working properly when this is 
> occurring, and
> > > has to be stopped and restarted.
> > 
> > Curtis,
> > 
> > Sounds like your system has run out of file descriptors.  
> Are you running
> > on Solaris?  You can set the number of available file 
> descriptors for your
> > system in /etc/system, although there can be issues with 
> using more than
> > 1024.
> > 
> > --Quanah
> > 
> > --
> > Quanah Gibson-Mount
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> > ITSS/TSS/Computing Systems
> > Stanford University
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