Setting the SLAPD_OCHANDLERS environment variable on Windows

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On Windows™ systems, if you have clients that are generating many connections to the server and the connections are being refused, set the SLAPD_OCHANDLERS environment variable to 15 before you start the server.

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Error messages similar to the following might be logged in the idsslapd.log file:
 Feb 11 14:36:04 2004Communications error: Exceeding 64
connections/OCH - dropping socket.
If you see these errors, complete the steps in this procedure.

Procedure

  1. Save a copy of your ibmslapd.conf file.
  2. Insert the following in the section that starts with dn: cn=FrontEnd,cn=Configuration:
    ibm-slapdSetenv: SLAPD_OCHANDLERS=15
  3. Stop and restart the server.