[CentOS] Processes launched from rc*.d and ulimit -n

[James Pearson]

Mitch Patenaude wrote:
> I'm running fedora directory server on some boxes in a multi-master
> arrangement.
> 
> The problem is that when dirsrv is lauched from init (on boot) the
> maximum number of allowed file descriptors (ulimit -n) is only 4096.
> That means that the slapd process can only accept ~4k connections,
> and it needs to accept ~10k or so.

There was a thread about just this in the last couple of weeks or so - see:

<http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2014-April/142407.html>

and continued from:

<http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2014-May/142635.html>

James Pearson