On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Thomas Matthijs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 14:15, Uwe Schindler <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Simon, >> >> I had no success to change anything. As root I can at least call ulimit >> -n, but the limit does not raise. Lowering is easily possible: >> >> [root@lucene ~]# ulimit -n 32768 > > Probably kernel level enforced max, try raising it with sysctl, i think > there are options named "kern.maxfilesperproc" or "kern.maxfiles" you can > list them with # sysctl -a >
Are you sure we should do this? I've had this discussion with mikemccand before, the concern is that if we have too many open files this is definitely a realistic problem (it comes up on the userlist quite often). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
