Unable to set open files limit via limits.conf
Issue
-
Unable to raise the open files limit, either via
ulimit
command or/etc/security/limits.conf
file# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max 5096000 # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr 4448 0 5096000 # grep limit /etc/pam.d/system-auth session required pam_limits.so # egrep -v '^$|^#' /etc/security/limits.conf Username hard nofile 65536 Username soft nofile 32768 # su Username -lc 'ulimit -n' 2048 # su - Username $ ulimit -n 2048 $ ulimit -n 4096 -bash: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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