If I understand correctly, when our build runs on ubuntu2, it's running with an effective ulimit of 1024? With regard to the other ubuntu machines, were you saying they run with a ulimit of 40000 or that you're not sure about their effective ulimit?
John > > Re: Fw: Too Many Open Files in Aries Build > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Jake Farrell <jfarr...@apache.org> wrote: > > > ubuntu2 has the ulimit set to 40000 as one of the first calls in > > /etc/init.d/ssh. matches all other ubuntu slaves > > > > However, the effective ulimit is 1024: > ngn@aegis /home/ngn :) sudo -u hudson ssh vesta.apache.org ulimit -n > 1024 > > I'm not sure what differs between hosts, but it is running an older version > of Ubuntu. > > /niklas