I did it before: * soft nofile 16384 * hard nofile 16384 in /etc/security/limits.conf, but it doesn't work at all - I still have #ulimit -n 1024 #ulimit -Hn 1024 Any other ideas? Mike On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:22:13 -0500, C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc.rr.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 21:50 -0500, Mike Obvious wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Question from the novice. > > > > I have to permanently increase number of opened files ( ulimit -n 16384 and > > ulimit -Hn 16384) for some application. > > I did custom kernel based on > > > > https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-custom-kernel-modularized.html > > > > and application documentation ( written for RH 9), no error during all makes > > but I have panic during the boot. ( It's Dell SC1425, dual CPU, 2GB RAM, > > i686-based kernel). > > > > Is there any other way to do it ? > > Look in /etc/security/limits.conf > > -- > C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc dot rr dot com> > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at caosity.org > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >