On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 05:34:53AM -0500, houkouonchi wrote: > Ok, so doing: > > ulimit -n <value> > then running wine right after that won't work? I also tried putting it in my .bashrc which didn't help either. > > I in the past already tried editing /etc/security/limits.conf but it doesn't seem to be making a difference. Even if I run env-update any new shells or anything like that would just use my old limit of 1024. I never had issues like this on rtorrent when I just ran ulimit -n <value> before starting it up but I am guessing wine works differently. > > Do you know how I can get the values in /etc/security/limits.conf o take affect without rebooting. I can't reboot this machine. > > Thanks for the info! You will have to logout completely and restart your session in order for it to take effect. To test I would try adding the following to /etc/security/limits.conf <username> hard nofile 8192 Then after restarting your login session, try the following command # ulimit -Hn 8192 Worked perfectly fine here for me. -- Darragh "Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool."
