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ulimit gets or sets the upper limit for resources available to the current shell.

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Openfire process does not follow ulimit nofiles value in limits.conf

I have the following values set in my /etc/security/limits.conf * hard nofile 1048576 * soft nofile 1048576 openfire hard nofile 1048576 openfire soft nofile 1048576 I expect the openfire process to set its…
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Ulimit chnage after reboot as no effect

I have changed /etc/security/limits.com and rebooted the machine remotely, However, after the boot, the nproc parameter has still the old value. [ost@compute-0-1 ~]$ cat /etc/security/limits.conf * - memlock -1 * - stack -1 * - …
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Why doesn't ulimit -t kill a process sleeping beyond the limit with time.sleep?

I am trying to limit the CPU usage of one python script using ulimit -t. The script contains one time.sleep() statement and it is not killed after the specified time limit. Here is the simplified python script named test.py: import time while…
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MongoDB "open files limit" error during repairDatabase

I'm trying to do repairDatabase of MongoDB on Ubuntu 16.04 but it fails with an error "errno:24 Too many open files" ("code" : 16818). I've raised "ulimit -n" up to 1024000, restarted the server, but still getting the same error. It does not seem…
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Ulimit for managed server and other java processes

Nn a AIX interface, ulimit is defined across two stages, One under etc/security -One under $WL_HOME/common/bin/commEnv.sh Need to understand, the java objects coming spawning from managed servers uses which ulimit ?
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In docker run, how to set multi-value in --ulimit

$ sudo docker run --ulimit fsize=10240 cpu=12 -it ubuntu /bin/bash docker: Error parsing reference: "cpu=12" is not a valid repository/tag. See 'docker run --help'. $ sudo docker run --ulimit fsize=10240 --ulimit cpu=12 -it ubuntu…
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Where is the default max locked memory value coming from?

So on one system, I have values that are pretty wide open: $ ulimit -a | grep mem max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 40000 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited Another system has much more…
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prlimit and ulimit -u does not seem to work

I am writing a simple code which sets the Nproc prlimit to 0. I then try to fork a process which should generate an error. But the child is created. I tried creating multiple children and there seems to be no error message ever. import…
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User limits for a Kerberos secured Hadoop cluster

I am running map reduce jobs in a kerberos secured hadoop cluster. Distribution is Hortonworks. Some jobs that were working fine before, happen to fail since we set kerberos. We reach the ulimit -u (nbproc) for the applicative user that launches…
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Cancelling ulimit bounds

I am writing isolated sandbox for untrusted code so I am looking for safe way to isolate code execution. Also I need a way to collect code stats (memory usage, cpu usage, etc.) I have tried Docker but Stats API can stream only with a second period…
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Android system wide nofiles(descriptors) limit

Is there any way to set system wide nofiles(descriptors) limit - like editing /etc/security/limits.conffile in linux? I have root access to system - so access rights is not problem
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What is going to happen if my pending signals limit is exceeded?

I'm blocking certain signals in my process, and I'm wondering what is going to happen if the pending signals limit is exceeded. Do the new ones get lost or is my process going to crash?
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How to increase carbon-cache nofile limit on Debian 7?

I'm running Graphite 0.9.12 on a Debian 7 server. Recently I found errors in carbon-cache's log, saying "too many open files". According to carbon-cache's website, I need to increase nofile limit for carbon-cache.…
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lsof outputs greater than ulimit -Hn

The following commands run in a single session shows lsof size greater than ulimit supported size. How is this possible? $ lsof | wc -l 226863 $ ulimit -n 200000 $ ulimit -Hn 200000
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Allocate memory to a process that other process can not use in linux

To limit memory resource for particular process we can use ulimit as well as cgroup. I want to understand that if using cgroup, I have allocated say ~700 MB of memory to process A, on system having 1 GB of RAM, and some other process say B,…
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