An overly high value for the nofile ulimit or the fs.file-max kernel tunable can cause slowness

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Issue

  • I set the nofile ulimit to unlimited and now my system is running slowly.
  • System is slow after increasing the open files to a high value.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, or 8

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