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Re: max open files

Russ Allbery wrote:
> Dan Pritts <danno@internet2.edu> writes:
>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:36:09AM -0400, Alex McKenzie wrote:
> 
>>> perhaps something the devels should think about.  If they decide to
>>> continue on the way they have... well, that's their option.  It's their
>>> project, and they can do what they want with it.  But they should at
>>> least be aware that people are concerned about the current methods.
> 
>> I tend to agree with Alex, FWIW, but I too recognize that I get what I
>> pay for.
> 
> Out of fairness want to note that the most significant component of the
> problems with the OpenLDAP packages for Debian (and Ubuntu, to a somewhat
> lesser degree) is that the packaging team has basically no resources.

In this case I'd prefer if a Linux distribution would not add a package at
all. At least not a package which was obviously an experimental pre-release at
that time. And not hacking the upstream software to work with components known
to be buggy. This would save us all a lot of time.

Ciao, Michael.