* Re: [solved] ulimit -n to small
@ 2006-04-14 21:28 Heinrich Götzger
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From: Heinrich Götzger @ 2006-04-14 21:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
Heinrich Goetzger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my zsh 4.2.5 on gentoo has a problem with the number of file descriptors.
> They can not raise the hard limit even with the -S set as mentioned in [1]:
>
> $ ulimit -n
> 1024
> $ ulimit -SHn 2048
> ulimit: can't raise hard limits
> $ ulimit -Sn 2048
> ulimit: value exceeds hard limit
>
> But I need a value for file descriptors > 5000 for some java application.
> With ksh and zsh @ root it works as expected:
> ulimit -n 1024
> # ulimit -n
> 1024
> # ulimit -n 8192
> # ulimit -n
> 8192
>
> How can I change the hard limit for the file descriptors?
so, it's been quite a year since I asked this qustion. But now I've
found some nice sollution on my gentoo box:
just add
<user> hard nofile 16384
<user> soft nofile 8192
to file: /etc/security/limits.conf
and all is fine now.
Cheers
Heinrich
> [1]: http://zsh.sunsite.dk/Doc/Release/zsh_16.html
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