Why did Red Hat Directory server crash with error 'PR_Accept() failed, Netscape Portable Runtime error -5971 (Process open FD table is full.)"

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Issue

  • Error completely took down production instances Red Hat Directory Server 9.x
20/Nov/2014:09:48:46 -0600] - libdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
[20/Nov/2014:09:48:46 -0600] - Serious Error---Failed in deadlock detect (aborted at 0x0), err=-30974 (DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery)
[20/Nov/2014:09:48:46 -0600] - PR_Accept() failed, Netscape Portable Runtime error -5971 (Process open FD table is full.)
[20/Nov/2014:09:48:46 -0600] - PR_Accept() failed, Netscape Portable Runtime error -5971 (Process open FD table is full.)
[20/Nov/2014:09:48:46 -0600] - PR_Accept() failed, Netscape Portable Runtime error -5971 (Process open FD table is full.)
[20/Nov/2014:09:48:46 -0600] - PR_Accept() failed, Netscape Portable Runtime error -5971 (Process open FD table is full.)

Environment

  • Red Hat Directory Server 9.x

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