Re: File descriptor hard limit is now bumped to the kernel max
On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 06:39:15PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jun 06, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > I believe the change Luca describes is increasing rlim_max (hard limit)
> > but not rlim_cur (soft limit), and the code touched by that patch is
> > looking at rlim_cur, so it should be unaffected anyway - unless some larger
> > component is raising rlim_cur.
> Something did, because inn would start reporting ~1G available fds and
> then explode, and that patch solved the issue. :-)
There are conditions under which the 1024 limit doesn't apply, like
running in a docker container.
Mike
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