On Wednesday, August 01, 2012 10:41:41 AM Michael Orlitzky 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`.
Michael, I had to change the "nofiles" ulimit setting for my webserver. For that, I simply added the settings to the following file: # cat /etc/security/limits.conf | grep apache apache hard nofile 4096 apache soft nofile 4096 I would expect the same to work for any other daemon? HTH, Joost
