2013/5/1 Benoit Chesneau <[email protected]>: > 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. Ubuntu 11.10 (it needs updating, just haven't had the time yet).
> > Probably /etc/security/limits.conf in your case. That looks like the one. > I'm actually > interrested by the limit you already have, can you paste the result of > ` ulimit -n` ? It's 1024 That seems to be the default. My own desktop (Ubuntu 12.04) has the same. We have more than that number of databases (1134 as of now). Regards, Pieter.
