[JDEV] max files/sockets

[Thomas Muldowney]

On jabber.org we use daemon tools to set ulimits as root and then
actually run our services under a "jabber" user id.

--temas


On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 12:41:34PM -0500, Justin Georgeson wrote:
> So the proc limits seem ok, by default, but I still seem to need to run 
> ulimit, which seems to need root access to set values. I don't want to 
> give root access on all the machines we're using to test, is there any 
> other way?
> 
> Ralph Siemsen wrote:
> >Justin Georgeson wrote:
> >
> >>I'm running jabbertest, and am hitting the file/socket limit. I found 
> >>this
> >>
> >>http://mailman.jabber.org/pipermail/jdev/2000-April/002067.html
> >>
> >>But the inode-max doesn't exist, and the echo ... > into it just tells 
> >>me so, rather than creating it. :/
> >
> >
> >Under 2.4 they are renamed... /proc/sys/fs/file-max and inode-max.  Note 
> >that under RedHat and probably some other distros, these are already 
> >increased from their "default" values.
> >
> >For lots of good information on /proc entries see the kernel source 
> >documentation: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> >
> >-R
> >
> >
> >
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