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

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On February 12, 2008 6:54:07 PM +0200 Buchan Milne 
<bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday 12 February 2008 18:25:39 Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> > --On February 12, 2008 3:25:46 PM +0200 Amir Saad <eng__amir@hotmail.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > I'm running OpenLDAP 2.3.30-5 on Debian 4. I checked the syslog and I
> > > found the following errors:
> > > slapd: warning: cannot open /etc/hosts.allow: Too many open files
> > > slapd: warning: cannot open /etc/hosts.deny: Too many open files
> >
> > Fix the number of file handles available.
>
> 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...

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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