[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#660917: Bug#660917: fileno ulimit regression: slapd rejects connections approaching 1024 simultaneous connections

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 2:36 PM -0800 Chris Hiestand 
<chiestand at salk.edu> wrote:

> That's all fair enough, I've moved this to wishlist. I would find this
> patch, or something like it, useful in order to make it easy for admins
> of heavily-used servers to easily increase the ulimit and not have to
> maintain a forked init file. Maintaining forks strains my technomage
> capabilities ;-)

I would note the only reason this is being hit at all is because slapd has 
been linked to tcpwrappers. I personally frown on such linking, as you can 
do much more sophisticated filtering at the ACL level in OpenLDAP, and all 
it does is create issues such as this one.  If you aren't using 
hosts.{allow,deny} then rebuild w/o the tcpwrappers linking, and this 
problem will disappear entirely.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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