Installation guide

2.2.4 .2.4 . File Descript ors
For a large deployment or to support a large number of concurrent connections, increase the number of
file descriptors available for the Directory Server. This requires accessing the system-wide maximum file
descriptor table. The governing parameter, rlim_fd_max, is in the /etc/system file. By default, if this
parameter is not present, the allowed maximum value is 1024. You can increase this to 4096 by adding
the line, set rlim_fd_max=4096 to the /etc/system file.
Reboot the Solaris machine to apply these changes.
To determine the soft limit for file descriptors, run the command ulim it -n. You can also use the
dsktune utility to determine the file descriptor hard and soft limits, as described in Section 2.2.1, “Using
dsktune”.
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