[SOLVED] Re: Increasing the maximum number of open files

From: J.L. Coenders (fedora_at_universalgrid.nl)
Date: 08/03/04

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    Thanks,
    This solved my problems.
    - Jeroen

    On Tuesday 03 August 2004 09:09 am, Rainer Traut wrote:
    > 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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