Hello Rodrick,

Regular users are only able to ­lower­ their ulimits, never increase them.
You need to either be the superuser, or to set higher resource limits by
default. This has nothing to do with Ganglia, and it¹s not something they¹d
be able to fix for you.

cheers,
Klaus

On 8/25/08 11:33 AM, "Rodrick Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>did etch
on stone tablets:

> Can someone help me figure out what¹s limiting processes started from gexec to
> use the default 1024 open files limit Œulimit ­n¹?
> In my .bash_profile/.bashrc I have ulimit ­Sn 60000
>  
> Running my application manually w/o being called from gexec works fine,
> however if I call gexec my app is limited to 1024 FD limit which is causing
> major problems. 
>  
>  
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ gexec -n 1 bash -c 'ulimit -Sn60000; ulimit -n'
> 0 /bin/bash: line 0: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Invalid argument
> 0 1024
>  
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] scripts]$ ssh nycplx01a 'ulimit -Sn60000; ulimit -n'
> 60000
>  
> I¹ve looked at the sources for gexecd and don¹t see any calls to setrlimit()
> so I¹m not sure why this is happening any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks. 
>  
>  
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