When running my application I sometimes get an error about too many files open
.
Running ulimit -a
reports that the limit is 1024. How do I increase the limit above 1024?
Edit
ulimit -n 2048
results in a permission error.
This question is related to
linux
If you are using Linux and you got the permission error, you will need to raise the allowed limit in the /etc/limits.conf
or /etc/security/limits.conf
file (where the file is located depends on your specific Linux distribution).
For example to allow anyone on the machine to raise their number of open files up to 10000 add the line to the limits.conf
file.
* hard nofile 10000
Then logout and relogin to your system and you should be able to do:
ulimit -n 10000
without a permission error.
1) Add the following line to /etc/security/limits.conf
webuser hard nofile 64000
then login as webuser
su - webuser
2) Edit following two files for webuser
append .bashrc and .bash_profile file by running
echo "ulimit -n 64000" >> .bashrc ; echo "ulimit -n 64000" >> .bash_profile
3) Log out, then log back in and verify that the changes have been made correctly:
$ ulimit -a | grep open
open files (-n) 64000
Thats it and them boom, boom boom.
If some of your services are balking into ulimits, it's sometimes easier to put appropriate commands into service's init-script. For example, when Apache is reporting
[alert] (11)Resource temporarily unavailable: apr_thread_create: unable to create worker thread
Try to put ulimit -s unlimited
into /etc/init.d/httpd
. This does not require a server reboot.
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