By gabriel403
I have 2 entries in my limits.conf,
* hard nofile 10240
* soft nofile 4096
but running ulimit -Sn or ulimit -Hn only displays the default values.
gabriel@server:~$ ulimit -Sn
1024
gabriel@server:~$ ulimit -Hn
4096
It works fine on one server but on another it’s as if they’re being ignored.
I did have a problem with apt-get autoremove for some old kernels on this one server which I didn’t have on the other, I didn’t note it down but I’m quite able to reboot.
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It’s not for root just normal users, it works on other droplets fine, it used to work on this droplet but for some reason doesn’t anymore. Have rebooted a few times :)
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