kxepal commented on a change in pull request #174: Improve docs on bumping fd limits URL: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-documentation/pull/174#discussion_r144389456
########## File path: src/maintenance/performance.rst ########## @@ -133,11 +133,18 @@ If your system is set up to use the Pluggable Authentication Modules (`PAM`_) system (as is the case with nearly all modern Linuxes), increasing this limit is straightforward. For example, creating a file named ``/etc/security/limits.d/100-couchdb.conf`` with the following contents will -ensure that CouchDB can open up to 4096 file descriptors at once:: +ensure that CouchDB can open up to 10000 file descriptors at once:: Review comment: Thanks for the explanation! I miss the new max db open value. Looks pretty fine then. As for why not. I fear that users will use it blindly for copy-paste-because-docs-said-so-oh-no, so it's better have some sane value here. You just prove that it's sane (: ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] With regards, Apache Git Services
