[colug-432] ulimit

[Mark Aufdencamp]

If your 1024 limit is threads, that's the default compiled into the RH
kernel.  You'll need to custom compile the kernel with a higher value to
increase that number.  I've had to do that for some heavy traffic Apache
sites.  If thats truely the area your having problems, you might also
want to investigate the JVM to native thread mapping .  The JVM doesn't
necessarily map one-to-one.  This would especially be true if your using
the IBM JVM rather than Sun's(oops Oracles) JVM.  I remember reading on
this sometime ago, but its been a while.

Hope that helps some.

Mark Aufdencamp

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [colug-432] ulimit
> From: Rick Hornsby <richardjhornsby at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, December 02, 2011 11:52 am
> To: Central OH Linux User Group - 432xx <colug-432 at colug.net>
> 
> 
> We're running into some issues hitting FD limits, mostly running Websphere on RH5.5.
> 
> We've been able to raise the limit by adding entries to /etc/security/limits.conf for the user running Websphere, but still don't fully understand how the kernel counts how many FDs a user has open (websphere is the only thing running java but lsof -c /java/ | wc -l sometimes shows a value over the limit w/ no obv issues), if that is the right place to set it, and where the default of 1024 comes from?
> 
> Further confusing it for me at least is that ulimit is a bash builtin command, but the limits are enforced by the kernel?
> 
> Any insight would be helpful.
> 
> thanks!
> -rj
> 
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