On Wednesday 26 April 2006 02:51pm, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 02:34:55PM -0600, Lamont R. Peterson wrote: > > Where do you put that? There is no "limit" command and ulimit doesn't > > accept "descriptors" as a parameter. > > limit descriptors is (t)csh, the (ba)sh equivalent is ulimit -n. Use > ulimit -a for the complete list. Oh, duh! OK. Running "ulimit -n 2048" on the client box in my 3-box setup, yielded the result that 2045 network connections could be made, as root. Trying to run that ulimit command as an unprivileged user results in an error message (as expected). So, in order to solve Hendrik Wiese's problem, they can either launch their client program as root, increase the limit to whatever they feel is appropriate, and then drop root privileges, or use pam_limits.so by editing /etc/security/limits.conf and adding lines like: * soft nofile 1024 * hard nofile 65535 Of course, set values that make sense for the soft limit, since unprivileged users can't change that. On RHEL & FC, pam_limit.so is loaded in /etc/pam.d/system-auth, so no modifications will be needed. > > I'd certainly like to know the answer, too. > > /etc/security/limits.conf is I think what you want. I agree; that's the best way. > > BTW: With 1GB RAM minimum on all my notebooks and workstations (and on a > > couple of my personal servers), it wouldn't bother me to increase that > > default to 5120 or 10240 even. Of course, that change could require a > > much more in depth conversation. > > I'd agree. I'd love to know the kernel memory cost for a fd though. I don't have the kernel source (or headers) handy at the moment. If I did, I'd find out by starting with the fs.h header and working from there. -- Lamont R. Peterson <lamont@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Senior Instructor Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ] GPG Key fingerprint: F98C E31A 5C4C 834A BCAB 8CB3 F980 6C97 DC0D D409
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