Re: [slighly OT] how to increase hardnofiles & softnofiles on SUSE SLES9

From: Maxim Demenko <mdemenko_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:13:28 +0100
Message-ID: <47824198.1080209@gmail.com>


codadilupo schrieb:
> A few months ago I set up a SUSE SLES9 system with Oracle Application
> Server 10.1.2.0.2. I remember I had to play with hardnofiles and
> softnofiles but I'm not able to remember what have I done exactly.
>
> Now I'm trying to set up a second system hydentical to the first but I'm
> not able to pass the prerequisite checks, I always get these messages:
>
> Checking for hardnofiles=65536; found hardnofiles=1024. Failed <<<<
> Checking for softnofiles=4096; found softnofiles=1024. Failed <<<<
>
> Indeed, on the first system I get these values with a non-root user:
>
> $ ulimit -Sa | grep files
> open files (-n) 65536
> $ ulimit -Ha | grep files
> open files (-n) 65536
>
> While on the second system I get these values:
>
> $ ulimit -Sa | grep files
> open files (-n) 1024
> $ ulimit -Ha | grep files
> open files (-n) 1024
>
> Unfortunately I'm not able to remember which changes I made to the first
> system in order to set these values for all users. Any suggestions?
>
> Thank you. Kind regards, Cristian.

Don't have sles by hand, but on RH based systems it can be configured via /etc/security/limits.conf

Best regards

Maxim Received on Mon Jan 07 2008 - 09:13:28 CST

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