Del wrote: > >>> ulimit -n 8192 >> >> >> >> On top of that, you also have to put the same ulimit line in any >> scripts which call ns-slapd (bak2db, db2bak, bak2ldif, ldif2bak, etc). >> This "feature" caused me major problems several weeks ago when those >> scripts failed and left some files with wrong permissions, thus >> causing nearly impossible to debug write deadlocks. >> >> I really hope that this is redesigned in an upcoming release. > > > The ideal thing is if you extend the ulimit in /etc/security/limits.conf, > put the ulimit command in /etc/profile. Then you don't need to fix any > scripts. This is a linux thing, and maybe only a redhat linux thing (I don't know, because I only use RHEL and FC as far as linux goes). It doesn't exist on e.g. FreeBSD. -- mike