From 0ac1ee0bfec2a4ad118f907ce586d0dfd8db7641 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Gardner Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 17:13:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] ulimit: raise default hard ulimit on number of files to 4096 Apps are increasingly using more than 1024 file descriptors. See discussion in several distro bug trackers, e.g. BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663090 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2054 You don't want to raise the default soft limit, since that might break apps that use select(), but it's safe to raise the default hard limit; that way, apps that know they need lots of file descriptors can raise their soft limit without needing root, and without user intervention. Ubuntu is doing this with a kernel change because they have a policy of not changing kernel defaults in userland. While 4096 might not be enough for *all* apps, it seems to be plenty for the apps I've seen lately that are unhappy with 1024. Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner Cc: Dan Kegel Cc: Al Viro Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/asm-generic/resource.h | 2 +- include/linux/fs.h | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/asm-generic/resource.h b/include/asm-generic/resource.h index 587566f95f6c..61fa862fe08d 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/resource.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/resource.h @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ [RLIMIT_CORE] = { 0, RLIM_INFINITY }, \ [RLIMIT_RSS] = { RLIM_INFINITY, RLIM_INFINITY }, \ [RLIMIT_NPROC] = { 0, 0 }, \ - [RLIMIT_NOFILE] = { INR_OPEN, INR_OPEN }, \ + [RLIMIT_NOFILE] = { INR_OPEN_CUR, INR_OPEN_MAX }, \ [RLIMIT_MEMLOCK] = { MLOCK_LIMIT, MLOCK_LIMIT }, \ [RLIMIT_AS] = { RLIM_INFINITY, RLIM_INFINITY }, \ [RLIMIT_LOCKS] = { RLIM_INFINITY, RLIM_INFINITY }, \ diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 5bb9e826019b..3f9d3251790d 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ /* Fixed constants first: */ #undef NR_OPEN -#define INR_OPEN 1024 /* Initial setting for nfile rlimits */ +#define INR_OPEN_CUR 1024 /* Initial setting for nfile rlimits */ +#define INR_OPEN_MAX 4096 /* Hard limit for nfile rlimits */ #define BLOCK_SIZE_BITS 10 #define BLOCK_SIZE (1<