It's a bit hard to increase the max open files limit as an ordinary user when the default hard limit is 1024.
ulimit/limit is builtin in the shell, so you have to check the man page of the shell. -- Too many open files https://launchpad.net/bugs/43900 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs