I've been having some instability issues with my LDAP server. I have ~2000 machines connecting to it.  Using netstat -pant | grep slapd, I can typically see 1500+ connections from the clients to the server at any given moment.  But every so often, the connection count drops to zero. At that point the clients start having problems with jobs that rely on LDAP.  I have to restart slapd on the LDAP server to get it to start accepting connections again.  Sometime I have to restart the ldap daemon on the clients too.I've been told by a vendor that I need to increase the hard and soft nofile limits for the LDAP user so that it can accept more connections. Current settings:ldap@myldapserver:~> ulimit -Hn8192ldap@myldapserver:~> ulimit -Sn4500The vendor suggests 65000 hard and 16000 soft.  ldap    soft    nofile  16000ldap    hard    nofile  65000This seems like a pretty dramatic increase and I can't help but wonder if this will have any adverse effects on the server. The LDAP server is a single purpose server. Should I be worried?
What are the effects of increasing hard and soft limits for ldap user
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