Re: Increasing the maximum number of open files

From: Rainer Traut (rainer.traut_at_epost.de)
Date: 08/03/04

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    Hi,

    J.L. Coenders wrote:
    > Hi guys,
    > I have a program which tells me it needs more open files than the system can
    > handle.
    > When I do nlimit -n, it tells me I have 1024 files max. How do you increase
    > this number, permanently? I found some stuff about
    > changing /etc/security/limits.conf and /etc/pam.d/gdm and some others, but
    > that doesn't really work. It's probably some simple trick and I remember
    > something alike before, but I cannot remember how it was done.
    > I use FC2 with KDE.

    /etc/security/limits.conf is the right place:
    [root@asp5 root]# cat /etc/security/limits.conf |grep nofile
    # - nofile - max number of open files
    notes soft nofile 90000
    notes hard nofile 90000
    [root@asp5 root]# su - notes
    [notes@asp5 notes]$ ulimit -a|grep files
    open files (-n) 90000

    Rainer 

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