Hi!

I would like to change the file descriptor soft limit for a specific process which is executed via a systemctl service and is actually a server which creates socket connections therefore I would like to increase the limit to more than 100k

In this case there is the option of editing directly /etc/security/limits.conf which as far as I know it will apply the changes for the user but

recently I learned also that systemctl provides this options

Which I would like to ask, are those 2 settings are independent? I mean if I will set a value directly to the systemctl LimitNOFILE=100000, do I need to edit also the /etc/security/limits.conf ?


Thanks!

Reading the description of this option in https://www.freedesktop.org/software...temd.exec.html, it seems obvious that LimitNOFILE overrides ulimit settings if the service is a system service.

In case of a user service, a normal non-privileged user can't increase limits above ulimit settings.

In short, if you are talking about a system service (which is the usual case), you don't have to edit limits.conf.