[NTLUG:Discuss] How to set process file limit?

Chris Cox cjcox at acm.org
Fri Mar 5 11:10:58 CST 2004


Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I am getting a message from tomcat running on my
> RedHat 9 box that says "Too Many Open Files".
> 
> When I do ulimit -aH, I get:
> 
...
> open files                    (-n) 1024
...
> 
> Reading on the internet, I added this line to
> /etc/security/limits.conf:
> 
> *	hard	nofile	10240
> 
> and rebooted the server.
> 
> But, when I login and try the ulimit -aH command again,
> I still get 1024 for the open files limit.

Check your pam.d files and make sure the pam_limits
modules is used for the login (and other services where
needed).

> 
> Any ideas why this did not work?

You're on the right path... it worked fine here on SUSE 8.2
(with no pam changes)

> What can I do to increase it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 	Neil




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