I rmeember you can just exist the shell and log on again to apply the changes. Not really a reboot. You can check it with ulimit -a for the list items of the changes. ------------ Banyan He Blog: http://www.rootong.com Email: banyan at rootong.com On 3/21/2013 2:52 AM, mcclnx mcc wrote: > We have CEntos 5.5 on DELL server. Due to more and more databases run on same server sometime processes number read max and cause 'resource temporary unavailable". > > I plan to change /etc/security/limits.conf value: > > oracle soft nproc 2047 ==> 4096 > > Do i need reboot to make it effect? > > How to test change is effect? > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >