Re: running out of file descriptors

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Monday, November 22, 2004 2:48 PM -0800 John Woodell 
<woodie@worldpac.com> wrote:

> I'm running openldap-2.0.27, with hundreds of Mozilla Thunderbird clients.
>
> We started to notice that our OpenLDAP server was running out of file
> descriptors.
> When this happens, OpenLDAP becomes non-responsive.
>
> Looking at my slapd logs, I noticed that other LDAP clients close their
> connection right away,
> but mozilla will hang onto them, and will close a bunch at once (possibly
> when the client exits).
>
> Is this a bug in Mozilla, or will an OpenLDAP configuration change and/or
> upgrade fix the problem.

An upgrade and defining "idletimeout" in slapd.conf will fix this problem. 
Note that a 2.0 to 2.2 upgrade is not trivial.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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