On 08/01/12 11:27, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: >> Is there a blessed method these days for setting the ulimit per-daemon? >> >> The best I've been able to do is a global setting in /etc/rc.conf: >> >> rc_ulimit="-s 1048576" >> >> The entries under /etc/security seem to be ignored when using >> `/etc/init.d/foo start`. > > If you are willing to try, systemd allows you to set not only the > limits for opened files, but also for basically every knob the Linux > kernel has. And to set it per daemon (or unit, in systemd parlance), > of course; for what you want, you would only need to set: > > LimitNOFILE=<limit> > > in the [Service] section of your unit. If you are interested, all the > relevant documentation is in systemd.exec(5). >
This is our mail filtering gateway, so I probably won't be willing to try systemd until the next time we replace the hardware =) That does sound extremely useful though. I'm planning on converting my desktops after it gets a little bit more traction.
