Top "Ulimit" questions

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

How to increase Neo4j's maximum file open limit (ulimit) in Ubuntu?

Currently ulimit -n shows 10000. I want to increase it to 40000. I've edited "/etc/sysctl.conf" and put fs.file-max=40000. I've …

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how to set ulimit / file descriptor on docker container the image tag is phusion/baseimage-docker

I need to set the file descriptor limit correctly on the docker container I connect to container with ssh (https://…

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What does "ulimit -s unlimited" do?

There are understandably many related questions on stack allocation What and where are the stack and heap? Why is there …

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How to change the stack size using ulimit or per process on Mac OS X for a C or Ruby program?

It seems that the recommended way to set stack size for a C program or Ruby program (which uses the …

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Too many open files ( ulimit already changed )

I'm working on a debian server with tomcat 7 and java 1.7. This is an application that recieves several TCP connections, each …

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How to increase ulimit on Amazon EC2 instance?

After SSH'ing into an EC2 instance running the Amazon Linux AMI, I tried: ulimit -n 20000 ...and got the following error: …

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Find ulimit -a for other users

Is anyone aware of a way to find the "ulimit -a" values for another user in Linux? I want user …

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bash fork error (Resource temporarily unavailable) does not stop, and keeps showing up every time I try to kill/reboot

I mistakenly used a limited server as an iperf server for 5000 parallel connections. (limit is 1024 processes) Now every time I …

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What is the max opened files limitation on Linux?

On Linux, when a process opens a file, the OS will check the max opened files limitation. If the limitation …

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What does "ulimit -l" mean?

According to the manpage, "-l" in ulimit means "The maximum size that may be locked into memory". What does this …

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