On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 12:23:14PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote: > On 05.01.2012 11:50, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 11:16:32AM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote: > >> One of my latest patches (d8db0f9690) created support for setting > >> the limit for the maximum of opened files by qemu user. However, > >> since libvirtd keeps one FD opened per domain (well, for qemu at least) > >> it will likely hit this limit on huge scenarios. > >> --- > >> daemon/libvirtd.aug | 1 + > >> daemon/libvirtd.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >> daemon/libvirtd.conf | 9 +++++++++ > >> 3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > > > IMHO, this is the kind of thing that should be done by the > > system init scripts. > > > > Daniel > > In that case, can you give me a hint how to change that limit on RHEL-6? > Esp. when I am not running libvirtd service by hand but via Upstart > init? Because all my attempts to change /etc/security/limits.conf were > not successful. For SysV init, the /etc/init.d/libvirtd and /etc/sysconfig/libvirt scripts will need to explicitly call ulimit to set this. For SystemD, you can just add LimitNOFILE=NNNN to the libvirtd.service definition Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list