Are you testing this via an ssh login? If so, I also had a problem similar to this, and an ugly kludge that I used was to add the ulimit -n 16384 in the sshd initscript before the various functions() get defined. As I said,... Kludgy, and hopefully someone here knows a cleaner way (that works). ;-) On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 12:17:30AM -0500, Mike Obvious wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at caosity.org > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Greg M. Kurtzer http://runlevelzero.net/ http://caosity.org/ http://warewulf-cluster.org/