--On Wednesday, June 07, 2017 8:44 PM +0200 Michael Str=C3=B6der=20 <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] wrote: >>> Is it possible we have the idletimeout set too high and it should be >>> lowered? I=3DC2=3DB9m wondering if there is some sweet-spot value for = this >>> particular setting. >> >> I generally leave it unset unless one is encountering an issue of = running >> out of connections. Generally, it would be fairly strange for >> idletimeout to affect things this way at all. > > I generally recommend to set idletimeout even somewhat tight in case you > don't have a strictly defined set of clients. Because a client > application which does not use its LDAP connection for ~5 min. is most > times simply not closing connections. And running out of file handles can > affect all file creation on your system (e.g. creating BDB's transaction > log files). Yep, there can be poorly written clients out there. I'd expect idletimeout = to be completely unrelated, given it's long standing existence and use. ;) --Quanah -- Quanah Gibson-Mount Product Architect Symas Corporation Packaged, certified, and supported LDAP solutions powered by OpenLDAP: <http://www.symas.com>
