[Fedora-directory-users] Re: FDS hangs

[Richard Megginson]

Saravana Kumar wrote:
> Richard Megginson wrote:
>
>   
>> You need to increase the number of file descriptors.
>> See http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Performance_Tuning#Linux
>> and
>> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/pdf/ds71cli.pdf - search
>> for nsslapd-maxdescriptors
>>
>> Saravana Kumar wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am running FDS in one of my servers. It serves authinfo(username &
>>> password) and automount info to about 50 clients. During peak hours(when
>>> the number of connections to the server are high) it is very difficult to
>>> operate in the client machines and the server fails to respond. Then i
>>> end up in hard rebooting the server. After reboot slapd would not start(i
>>> have scripts to start fds and fds-admin). I have to run ./setup/setup
>>> again to start the fds-admin.
>>>
>>> Can some one tell me why is this happenning? Is it a bug?
>>>
>>> The only error i see in the slapd logs is this:
>>> 17/Aug/2006:15:18:15 +051800] - Listening for new connections again
>>> [17/Aug/2006:15:18:15 +051800] - Not listening for new connections - too
>>> many fds open
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any pointers.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> SK
>>>
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>
> Thanks Richard,
>
> After posting here i infact got to this page: 
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/cli/config.htm
> and checked nsslapd-maxdescriptors(it is 1024) and
> nsslapd-ntconntablesize(is 1024). My /proc/sys/fs/file-max is already
> 102432. 
>
> I tried to change the nslapd-ntconntablesize from adminconsole, it failed
> with the error nsslapd-maxdescriptor is 1024. Then i tried to change
> maxdescriptor to 4096 it failed with the error maxfile descriptors must
> range from 1 to 1024 (the current file descriptors).
>   
You may have to edit the slapd-instance/start-slapd script to set ulimit 
-n 8192 or something like that first.  What does ulimit -n say?
> Any idea?
>
> Regds,
> SK
>
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