Full_Name: Chris Hodson Version: 2.3.32 OS: Red Hat EL 4 Rel 4 URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (198.207.0.5)

We're using a Red Hat EL 4 release 4 box to run openLDAP version 2.3.32. Every night we find ourselves reaching 1000+ (netstat | grep ldap | wc -l) connections to our LDAP server and have found the only resolution to restart the LDAP service daily. When we get to 1000+ connections performance takes a huge hit and no one is able to login to any box utilizing LDAP. This server consists of 2 dual core Opeterons with 8 GBs of memory, so its not a hardware performance issue. We're able to duplicate this issue on a RHEL 4 release 5 box also when we reach 1000+ connections using the same config files. Is there a setting that needs adjusting so connections timeout or some other config file misconfiguration?

Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.