[Centos] permanent ulimit -n on CentOS 3.4

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Maciej, thanks.
What exactly should I check to be sure that I "have a kernel compiled to 
accept however much you need" ? I need 16384. 

Michael

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:04:01 +0100 (CET), Maciej ?enczykowski
<maze@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> make sure you increase the global kernel file limit
> (/proc/sys/fs/file-max) and that you have a kernel compiled to
> accept however much you need...
> 
> Cheers,
> MaZe.
> 
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Mike Obvious wrote:
> 
> > I did it before:
> > *  soft nofile 16384
> > *  hard nofile 16384
> > in /etc/security/limits.conf, but it doesn't work at all - I still have
> > #ulimit -n
> > 1024
> > #ulimit -Hn
> > 1024
> >
> > Any other ideas?
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:22:13 -0500, C. Linus Hicks <lhicks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 21:50 -0500, Mike Obvious wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > Question from the novice.
> > > >
> > > > I have to permanently increase number of opened files ( ulimit -n 16384 and
> > > > ulimit -Hn 16384) for some application.
> > > > I did custom kernel based on
> > > >
> > > > https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-custom-kernel-modularized.html
> > > >
> > > > and application documentation ( written for RH 9), no error during all makes
> > > > but I have panic during the boot. ( It's Dell SC1425, dual CPU, 2GB RAM,
> > > > i686-based kernel).
> > > >
> > > > Is there any other way to do it ?
> > >
> > > Look in /etc/security/limits.conf
> > >
> > > --
> > > C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc dot rr dot com>
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