On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Sebastiaan Koetsier | proserve wrote: > I've been growing a large headache on this one, i have a number of LDAP > servers behind loadbalancing, since 2 days i constantly get the error: > Too many open files. Although I'm not a newbie with linux I'm unable to > resolve this, I have took the following stept: You need to specify nofile for ldap in the /etc/sysconfig/ldap file. For example, I have: ULIMIT_SETTINGS="-n 16384" Setting it for the ldap user in /etc/security/limits.conf will not have any effect, since it is root that starts the ldap server (so, the setting should be for root, not ldap). Steve -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Thompson E-mail: smt AT vgersoft DOT com Voyager Software LLC Web: http://www DOT vgersoft DOT com 39 Smugglers Path VSW Support: support AT vgersoft DOT com Ithaca, NY 14850 "186,282 miles per second: it's not just a good idea, it's the law" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos