On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 06:20:35PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > >HBase needs a high nofile limit. What would be the preferred way to set the > >limit for the HBase daemons? > >Just call ulimit in the initscript? > >The java process is started by "daemon" (Debian package "daemon"). > >Thank you, > >Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro > Create an exclusive user for your daemon, and drop a file in > /etc/security/limits.d with the following contents: > daemonuser - nofile <somenumber> This is the wrong answer to the question "how do I set ulimits for a daemon process?" /etc/security/limits.d is only processed by pam_limits, which has no reason to be in the path for service startup. > You should probably ask via debconf before doing it, though. No, you shouldn't do that either. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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