Hi Thomas,
This is a FreeBSD Jail, it has this sysctl setting, but jails are not allowed to change it (Operation not permitted). Uwe ----- Uwe Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen <http://www.thetaphi.de/> http://www.thetaphi.de eMail: [email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Matthijs Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 2:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [HUDSON] Lucene-trunk - Build # 1537 - Failure 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
