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Re: Raising maximum file descriptors



On Sunday 06 August 2006 14:11, Andreas Fester wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
> > I'm stuck really badly on this...  even though my
> > /etc/security/limits.conf has the necessary lines that should allow me to
> > change my ulimit, I still can't do it.
> >
> > baloo@ursine:~$ ulimit -n 4096
> > bash: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted
> > baloo@ursine:~$ ulimit -Sn
> > 1024
> > baloo@ursine:~$ ulimit -Hn
> > 1024
> >
> > What am I doing wrong or failing to check?
>
> you need to increase the session limits.
>
> Add something like this to /etc/security/limits.conf:
>
> *       soft    nofile  1024
> *       hard    nofile  65535

I did that, see included /etc/security/limits.conf on my original post,

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