On 24/04/2023 18:12, Ben Cotton wrote:
This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes
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by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.

AFAIK, a small number is a security measure. Memory mappings are kernel level objects, so poorly written applications can easily exhaust the limit of the entire system and make it unusable.

If needed by Steam or Wine, they should provide a .conf file instead rather than changing this setting system wide.

Steam from the RPM Fusion repository is already changing the DefaultLimitNOFILE variable:
https://github.com/rpmfusion/steam/blob/master/01-steam.conf

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Sincerely,
  Vitaly Zaitsev (vit...@easycoding.org)
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