Thank you, that helped. Here was the setup I settled with in the end:
https://wiki.ircnow.org/index.php?n=Relayd.Acceleration jrmu On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 12:32:03PM +0200, Jean-Pierre de Villiers wrote: > The entry openfiles-cur=1024 is overriding the entry openfiles=1024. > Note that openfiles=value sets both openfiles-max=value and > openfiles-cur=value. > > The setting openfiles-max setting is the upper limit which can only be > changed by root while any user can change their own openfiles-cur up the > maximum value set previously. You will either need to increase > openfiles-cur or remove it completely and only have openfiles=4096. > > All this info and more is contained in login.conf(5) and getrlimit(2). > > However, I believe the recommended practice would be to create a new > login class, called 'relayd' say, that inherits from the daemon class. > This is specified using the entry: tc=daemon. Otherwise, every process > running as a user in the daemon class will have these heightened > privileges - and there's a lot of them. > > Regards, > JP
