And, for posterity, you can check;

cat /proc/`pidof beam.smp`/limits

to check that it was applied.

B.


On 17 December 2013 22:11, Robert Newson <rnew...@apache.org> wrote:
> Yup, thanks ubuntu/debian for that (longstanding annoyance). btw, It's
> /etc/pam.d/su though, couchdb su's to the couchdb user during startup.
> common-session clearly works, though.
>
> B.
>
>
> On 17 December 2013 21:56, Glen Aidukas <gaidu...@behaviormatrix.com> wrote:
>> We just figured this out.
>>
>> I had placed in file: /etc/security/limits.conf the following:
>>
>>         *       soft    nofile  16384
>>         *       hard    nofile  32768
>>
>> But it turns out that we also needed to edit: /etc/pam.d/common-session  and 
>> add the following line to the end:
>>
>>         session required pam_limits.so
>>
>> Once we did this and restarted, the problem went away! :)
>>
>> Thanks for getting back to me though...  :)
>>
>> -Glen
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: matt j. sorenson [mailto:m...@sorensonbros.net]
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 4:48 PM
>> To: user@couchdb.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: New errors introduced after migrating from couchdb v1.2 to v1.5
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Robert Newson <rnew...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>>> emfile: you ran out of file descriptors.
>>>
>>> B.
>>>
>>
>> Can this be solved with a bigger thesaurus? haha (sorry) --Matt

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