Re: too many open files

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

--On Thursday, April 22, 2010 1:10 PM +0100 Hugo Monteiro 
<hugo.monteiro@fct.unl.pt> wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> Although the subject suggests a fairly know issue, i cannot seem to
> understand the cause.
>
> Log file presents
>
> Apr 22 12:57:36 proxyldap1 slapd[1511]: warning: cannot open
> /etc/hosts.allow: Too many open files
> Apr 22 12:57:36 proxyldap1 slapd[1511]: warning: cannot open
> /etc/hosts.deny: Too many open files
>
> slapd is version 2.4.17-2 (Debian Unstable) and is running on a xen vm,
> using 64bit kernel 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 in a Debian Lenny system.

<http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-technical/200806/msg00084.html>

Generally caused by linking against tcp wrappers, although I thought 64-bit 
OS shouldn't hit that issue.

--Quanah



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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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