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Re: slapd: warning: cannot open /etc/hosts.allow: Too many open files
Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> writes:
> There's no 32 bit vs 64 bit distinction here. The distinction is
> whether you built on a newer kernel/glibc that supports epoll() vs an
> older platform that only supports select(). If you're using epoll() then
> the FD_SETSIZE definitions are completely irrelevant, and the ulimit is
> the only controlling factor.
Aha! That explains it, and explains why I was confused. In that case,
this bug is now fixed, and I'll close it. We disabled epoll for a while
when we were still supporting Linux 2.4, but that's not been the case for
some time.
Thank you very much for the explanation.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>