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After careful examination, I don't find any bug here. Setting limits
via limits.conf works fine for me - and in fact, researching this shows
that patch 027 was broken and was having no effect at all.
I think one of two things is happening here:
- you're setting a hard limit in limits.conf (ulimit -H -n) but are checking
the soft limit (ulimit -n)
- you're trying to set a soft limit in limits.conf (user soft nofile...)
without first raising the hard limit (user hard nofile...), so your soft limit
change has no effect.
Lowering a hard limit will automatically lower the soft limit, but
raising either limit will not automatically raise the other. I have no
idea why any limit handling would work on other distros that doesn't
work on Ubuntu unless there are differences in the in-kernel defaults.
** Changed in: pam (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Invalid
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nofile limit cannot be increased, only decreased
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/327597
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