Re: slapd: warning: cannot open /etc/hosts.allow: Too many open files

Howard Chu hyc@symas.com writes:

There's no 32 bit vs 64 bit distinction here. The distinction is whether you built on a newer kernel/glibc that supports epoll() vs an older platform that only supports select(). If you're using epoll() then the FD_SETSIZE definitions are completely irrelevant, and the ulimit is the only controlling factor.

Aha! That explains it, and explains why I was confused. In that case, this bug is now fixed, and I'll close it. We disabled epoll for a while when we were still supporting Linux 2.4, but that's not been the case for some time.

Thank you very much for the explanation.