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On 08/01/12 11:27, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Is there a blessed method these days for setting the ulimit per-daemon? |
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>> The best I've been able to do is a global setting in /etc/rc.conf: |
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>> rc_ulimit="-s 1048576" |
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>> The entries under /etc/security seem to be ignored when using |
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>> `/etc/init.d/foo start`. |
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> If you are willing to try, systemd allows you to set not only the |
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> limits for opened files, but also for basically every knob the Linux |
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> kernel has. And to set it per daemon (or unit, in systemd parlance), |
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> of course; for what you want, you would only need to set: |
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> LimitNOFILE=<limit> |
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> in the [Service] section of your unit. If you are interested, all the |
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> relevant documentation is in systemd.exec(5). |
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This is our mail filtering gateway, so I probably won't be willing to |
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try systemd until the next time we replace the hardware =) |
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That does sound extremely useful though. I'm planning on converting my |
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desktops after it gets a little bit more traction. |
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