[Mono-list] SocketException: Too many open files (1020 socket sat once)

[Ian Norton]

Hi there,

ulimit does not actually edit the file.  If I'm right, you also need to logout
and login again before the globally set limits apply to you.

Ian

On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 08:31:53PM +0100, monolearner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> ulimit -n does not help me.
> 
> The following is my limits.conf:
> 
> # /etc/security/limits.conf
> #
> #Each line describes a limit for a user in the form:
> #
> #<domain>        <type>  <item>  <value>
> #
> #Where:
> #<domain> can be:
> #        - an user name
> #        - a group name, with @group syntax
> #        - the wildcard *, for default entry
> #        - the wildcard %, can be also used with %group syntax,
> #                 for maxlogin limit
> #
> #<type> can have the two values:
> #        - "soft" for enforcing the soft limits
> #        - "hard" for enforcing hard limits
> #
> #<item> can be one of the following:
> #        - core - limits the core file size (KB)
> #        - data - max data size (KB)
> #        - fsize - maximum filesize (KB)
> #        - memlock - max locked-in-memory address space (KB)
> #        - nofile - max number of open files
> #        - rss - max resident set size (KB)
> #        - stack - max stack size (KB)
> #        - cpu - max CPU time (MIN)
> #        - nproc - max number of processes
> #        - as - address space limit
> #        - maxlogins - max number of logins for this user
> #        - maxsyslogins - max number of logins on the system
> #        - priority - the priority to run user process with
> #        - locks - max number of file locks the user can hold
> #        - sigpending - max number of pending signals
> #        - msgqueue - max memory used by POSIX message queues (bytes)
> #        - nice - max nice priority allowed to raise to
> #        - rtprio - max realtime priority
> #
> #<domain>      <type>  <item>         <value>
> #
> 
> #*               soft    core            0
> #*               hard    rss             10000
> #@student        hard    nproc           20
> #@faculty        soft    nproc           20
> #@faculty        hard    nproc           50
> #ftp             hard    nproc           0
> #@student        -       maxlogins       4
> 
> # End of file
> 
> 
> This file does not have an entry for nofile even after I run ulimit -n.
> 
> My mono version: Mono JIT compiler version 2.4.2.2
> 
> Please help. Thanks.
> 
> 
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