On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Ron Vachiyer wrote: > Quick question about filedescriptors. On Centos6, cyrus 2.3.16 seems to > be able to open 4096 FDs ; > > master[27121]: retrying with 4096 (current max) > > ulimit -a says 1024; > > open files (-n) 1024 > > I am looking to increase this, and have found some documentation saying > to increse file-max in /proc. However, file-max already has a much > larger number; > > cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max > 1201105 > > The only way I have found so far is to add a ulimit -n 8192 in > /etc/rc.d/init.d/cyrus-imapd > > > Is there a more generic/cleaner way to do this? I've always done it in the cyrus init script: # Crank up the limits ulimit -n 209702 ulimit -u 4096 ulimit -c 102400 You may be able to set it in limits.conf (pam_limits), but I'm not sure if that applies when starting cyrus from the init script?? Andy ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus
