<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <blockquote cite="mid85ac2ef405080221391b01017@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Has anyone come across problem with directory server having too many fds open, which then causes it to not receive any new connections? </blockquote> </div> </blockquote> This typically indicates that you have a client application that is leaking connections. The sockets on CLOSE_WAIT shouldn't be a problem. It's active open connections that bung up your server. If you really do need gazillions of active connections, then you'll need to increase the file descriptor limit as detailed in the documentation. </body> </html>