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Re: How to set ulimit (nofile) for a daemon



On Wed, 19 May 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro> writes:
> > 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?
> 
> That's what I'd do.

I'd suggest having it in /etc/default/hbase (or whatever gets sourced
by the init script) so that it's easily modifiable by the user.

[I'd wonder slightly at why it needs a high nofile, but...]


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