redhat 9 max number of open files

From: jan terje tønnessen (jt-toenn_at_online.no)
Date: 05/28/05

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Date: 28 May 2005 23:37:09 +0200

    Hi !
    I am running redhat 9 (2.4.20-8) and I have a problem with max number of
    open files. I am running a database (mnesia) which manages to open
    approx 1024 files.
    I have tried different approaches to increase the limit of open files
    but it does not work. I have tried changing:

    /proc/sys/fs/file-max
    /etc/security/limits.conf
    ulimit -n

    Today I run my process as root (but have also tested with another user).
    Are 'root' treated special regarding the open-files limits ?

    cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
    131072

    /etc/security/limits.conf
    * soft nofile 2048
    * hard nofile 63536

    ulimit -a
    open files (-n) 2048

    ls /proc/<mnesia-pid>/fd/ | wc -l # gives approx 1024 

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