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author | Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> | 2011-05-24 17:13:05 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-05-25 08:39:43 -0700 |
commit | 0ac1ee0bfec2a4ad118f907ce586d0dfd8db7641 (patch) | |
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ulimit: raise default hard ulimit on number of files to 4096
Apps are increasingly using more than 1024 file descriptors. See
discussion in several distro bug trackers, e.g. BugLink:
http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663090
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2054
You don't want to raise the default soft limit, since that might break
apps that use select(), but it's safe to raise the default hard limit;
that way, apps that know they need lots of file descriptors can raise
their soft limit without needing root, and without user intervention.
Ubuntu is doing this with a kernel change because they have a policy of
not changing kernel defaults in userland.
While 4096 might not be enough for *all* apps, it seems to be plenty for
the apps I've seen lately that are unhappy with 1024.
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Cc: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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