Tweaking all the slaves to go offline when idle - I'll switch 'em back
to normal "always on" once they've all had a chance to
disconnect/reconnect.

A.

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Rajiv Chittajallu <raj...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> /etc/security/limits.conf is only used by pam_sessions. Limits are set for
> processes, based on this configs, only if an session is initiated via a
> process (login/sudo/ssh etc) that uses PAM. Processes started by upstart,
> or manually (including root) would only inherit parent limits, what ever
> that is, independent of user id.
>
>
> Root (or any caller with CAP_SYS_RESOURCE privs) can update/set limits for
> current for spawned children. These doesn¹t read /etc/security/limits.conf
> either.
>
> Current issue was in PAM being disabled in standard ASF configs for SSHD.
> So sessions started via sshd, has default limits, inherited from sshd
> process. This has been fixed now. Once jenkins slaves are restarted (via
> new ssh session), they should get appropriate limits per limits.conf.
>
> Host reboot is not required to change limits for a process.
>
> -rajive
>
> On 10/1/14, 3:21 PM, "Andrew Bayer" <andrew.ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Root seems to still have that set to 1024 - might be that the way that
>>Jenkins is ssh'ing it's inheriting the limits from root or something?
>>
>>On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Giridharan Kesavan
>><gkesa...@hortonworks.com> wrote:
>>> It¹s set permanently in the limits.conf. But somehow jenkins its not
>>> picking it up
>>> , even after a reboot.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> jenkins@asf905:~$ hostname -fasf905.gq1.ygridcore.net
>>> jenkins@asf905:~$ ulimit -n
>>> 60000
>>>
>>> jenkins@asf905:~$ cat /etc/security/limits.conf | grep nofile
>>> #        - nofile - max number of open files
>>> jenkins         soft    nofile          60000
>>> jenkins         hard    nofile          60000
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -giri
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 2:10 PM, David Nalley <ke4...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Rajiv:
>>>>
>>>> Can you take a look at BUILDS-17 - we don't seem to be able to change
>>>> ulimit on a number of machines at Yahoo!. Or rather, it's not
>>>> preserved past reboot it seems.
>>>>
>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BUILDS-17
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> --David
>>>>
>>>
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