Re: Is there a way to limit number of active connections?

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:
>
> > > Is there some way to configure maximum number of active connections to
> > > OpenLDAP server?
> > I suppose you could always use ulimit to limit the number of open files for
> > the process.
>
> Will slapd handle the resource shortage gracefully? I had bad experience
> with too low file descriptor ulimit in the past.

I guess Philip's reply answered that. The slapd connection manager will do 
fine, but other subsystems that open and close files probably won't, so this 
isn't really a practical approach.
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