[svlug] How to enable nofile during boot

Ivan Sergio Borgonovo mail at webthatworks.it
Wed May 3 01:04:20 PDT 2017


On 05/03/2017 09:02 AM, Robert Freiberger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm stuck on a work task and for the life of me, don't understand why my
> settings are not taking hold of the system.
>

> $ cat /etc/security/limits.conf
> * soft nofile 871114
> * hard nofile 871114
>
> So when I restart the host, I can find these settings are showing up.
>
> $ cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
> 871114

* applies just to non root users.

Is there any chance apache is run with different users depending on how 
you start it?
Is there any chance one time you checked with ulimit and another time 
you checked the process limit?

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Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
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