ulimit: raise default hard ulimit on number of files to 4096

0ac1ee0b · Tim Gardner <[email protected]> · 2011-05-24 17:13:05 -07:00

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 <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Kegel <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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