[SOLVED] Re: Increasing the maximum number of open files

[J.L. Coenders]

Thanks,
This solved my problems.
- Jeroen

On Tuesday 03 August 2004 09:09 am, Rainer Traut wrote:
> Hi,
>
> J.L. Coenders wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > I have a program which tells me it needs more open files than the system
> > can handle.
> > When I do nlimit -n, it tells me I have 1024 files max. How do you
> > increase this number, permanently? I found some stuff about
> > changing /etc/security/limits.conf and /etc/pam.d/gdm and some others,
> > but that doesn't really work. It's probably some simple trick and I
> > remember something alike before, but I cannot remember how it was done.
> > I use FC2 with KDE.
>
> /etc/security/limits.conf is the right place:
> [root at asp5 root]# cat /etc/security/limits.conf |grep nofile
> #        - nofile - max number of open files
> notes           soft    nofile          90000
> notes           hard    nofile          90000
> [root at asp5 root]# su - notes
> [notes at asp5 notes]$ ulimit -a|grep files
> open files                    (-n) 90000
>
> Rainer