Re: debian jail, setting max open files soft limit does not work

Hi Mateusz,

Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> writes:

> On 12/27/22, Mathias Picker <Mathias.Picker@virtual-earth.de> 
> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I’ve set up a jail on 13.1 running debian stretch, and now a
>> triplestore needing many openfiles for a data import.
[snip]
>> Running prlimit --nofile 20000 or prlimit --nofile 20000:20000
>> does not work, either, the soft limit stays at 1024, and the
>> import fails.
>>
>> Does anyone know a way to change the soft limit permenantly?
>
> kernel code is buggy here, from a quick read you should be able 
> to
> work around it by:
>
> sysctl compat.linux.default_openfiles=-1

this worked just fine!!! :)

Thanks a lot,

Mathias

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