On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 06:39:15PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 06, Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > > > I believe the change Luca describes is increasing rlim_max (hard limit) > > but not rlim_cur (soft limit), and the code touched by that patch is > > looking at rlim_cur, so it should be unaffected anyway - unless some larger > > component is raising rlim_cur. > Something did, because inn would start reporting ~1G available fds and > then explode, and that patch solved the issue. :-)
There are conditions under which the 1024 limit doesn't apply, like running in a docker container. Mike