ulimit problem with nofiles

arpad85 · 02-09-2007, 02:38 PM

Hello!

My problem is the following:

i set nofiles in limits.conf:
* soft nofiles 10240
* hard nofiles 10240

but it didn't works, but it has effect on root user.
on the normal users it has no effect. but i don'T know why.

Can anybody help me?

unSpawn · 02-09-2007, 03:04 PM

Hello and welcome to LQ, hope you like it here.

i set nofiles in limits.conf:
It's nofile, no "s".

* soft nofiles 10240
* hard nofiles 10240
Why this amount, what are you trying to achieve? And why try to force the same limit it on all users when limits.conf provides perfectly good examples confining it to just a group or a single user?

but it didn't works, but it has effect on root user.
on the normal users it has no effect.
How did you test the number of open file descriptors?

arpad85 · 02-09-2007, 03:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by unSpawn

Hello and welcome to LQ, hope you like it here.

i set nofiles in limits.conf:
It's nofile, no "s".

i misspeled here, but in the configuration i wrote nofile

Quote:

Originally Posted by unSpawn

but it didn't works, but it has effect on root user.
on the normal users it has no effect.
How did you test the number of open file descriptors?

ulimit -n give me the number of possible file descriptors

unSpawn · 02-09-2007, 06:03 PM

Pick one regular user account.
Add the soft and hard nofile rule for that particular user and set the value to 20.
SSH in to the box as that user.
Run "ulimit -n" show. Run "ps" or a subshell. What does it return?
Now run "ulimit -n 3". Run "ps" or a subshell. What does it return?