On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Pieter van der Eems > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Is the file descriptor a couchdb limit that I can change (where?) or a >> filesystem limit (ext4, we've already hit ext4 limit before but the >> errors were different). >> >> > > man ulimit(3) > > - benoit
in clear, either use the ulimit command to increase the limits at runtime or increase them either in security.conf or limits.conf depending on your system. Probably /etc/security/limits.conf in your case. I'm actually interrested by the limit you already have, can you paste the result of ` ulimit -n` ? - benoit
