The patch titled ulimit: raise default hard ulimit on number of files to 4096 has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ulimit-raise-default-hard-ulimit-on-number-of-files-to-4096.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ulimit: raise default hard ulimit on number of files to 4096 From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Apps are increasingly using more than 1024 file descriptors. See discussion in several distro bug trackers, e.g. BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663090 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2054 You don't want to raise the default soft limit, since that might break apps that use select(), but it's safe to raise the default hard limit; that way, apps that know they need lots of file descriptors can raise their soft limit without needing root, and without user intervention. Ubuntu is doing this with a kernel change because they have a policy of not changing kernel defaults in userland. While 4096 might not be enough for *all* apps, it seems to be plenty for the apps I've seen lately that are unhappy with 1024. Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dan Kegel <dank@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/asm-generic/resource.h | 2 +- include/linux/fs.h | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN include/asm-generic/resource.h~ulimit-raise-default-hard-ulimit-on-number-of-files-to-4096 include/asm-generic/resource.h --- a/include/asm-generic/resource.h~ulimit-raise-default-hard-ulimit-on-number-of-files-to-4096 +++ a/include/asm-generic/resource.h @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ [RLIMIT_CORE] = { 0, RLIM_INFINITY }, \ [RLIMIT_RSS] = { RLIM_INFINITY, RLIM_INFINITY }, \ [RLIMIT_NPROC] = { 0, 0 }, \ - [RLIMIT_NOFILE] = { INR_OPEN, INR_OPEN }, \ + [RLIMIT_NOFILE] = { INR_OPEN_CUR, INR_OPEN_MAX }, \ [RLIMIT_MEMLOCK] = { MLOCK_LIMIT, MLOCK_LIMIT }, \ [RLIMIT_AS] = { RLIM_INFINITY, RLIM_INFINITY }, \ [RLIMIT_LOCKS] = { RLIM_INFINITY, RLIM_INFINITY }, \ diff -puN include/linux/fs.h~ulimit-raise-default-hard-ulimit-on-number-of-files-to-4096 include/linux/fs.h --- a/include/linux/fs.h~ulimit-raise-default-hard-ulimit-on-number-of-files-to-4096 +++ a/include/linux/fs.h @@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ /* Fixed constants first: */ #undef NR_OPEN -#define INR_OPEN 1024 /* Initial setting for nfile rlimits */ +#define INR_OPEN_CUR 1024 /* Initial setting for nfile rlimits */ +#define INR_OPEN_MAX 4096 /* Hard limit for nfile rlimits */ #define BLOCK_SIZE_BITS 10 #define BLOCK_SIZE (1<<BLOCK_SIZE_BITS) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are ulimit-raise-default-hard-ulimit-on-number-of-files-to-4096.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html