Why ulimit -f doesn't work?

Asked Oct 13 '17 at 15:58

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I have got Ubuntu 14.04, there is ulimit for ${myuser}

ulimit -Hn
65536

I count number of opened files:

sudo lsof -u ${myuser} |wc -l
677245

How does it possible?

Edit: Also there is parameters;

cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
524288

edited Dec 14 '17 at 19:26

Cœur

asked Oct 13 '17 at 15:58

Oleg Ilyin

A google result shows: https://serverfault.com/questions/325011/how-can-lsof-report-a-higher-number-of-open-files-than-what-ulimit-says-should-b – Fausto Carvalho Marques Silva Oct 13 '17 at 16:03
And this: https://superuser.com/questions/579692/ulimit-nofiles-and-lsof – Fausto Carvalho Marques Silva Oct 13 '17 at 16:06
And another one: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/228710/why-lsof-reports-a-higher-number-of-open-files-of-user-than-what-ulimit-says-sho – Fausto Carvalho Marques Silva Oct 13 '17 at 16:07

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