On Dec 3, 2013, at 3:57 PM, Aaron Bennett wrote:

Dec 2 16:55:40 animal slapd[13735]: bdb(dc=clarku,dc=edu): /var/lib/ldap/log.0000032796: log file unreadable: Too many open files

Try setting fs.file-max (with sysctl or similar).

celia(SSD1):~# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max

65536

celia(SSD1):~# grep file-max /etc/sysctl.conf

fs.file-max = 65536