[nycbug-talk] How to raise openfiles ulimit in FreeBSD?

[Yusuke Shinyama]

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:59:10 -0700, "Bob Ippolito" <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
> On 4/14/07, Yusuke Shinyama <yusuke at cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to raise the per-user ulimit for openfiles. (FreeBSD)
> > /etc/login.conf defines it unlimited and sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc=11095.
> >
> > But when I login as a normal user, the openfiles is 1024,
> > whereas I get 11095 as root.
> >
> > How this value is determined? (I checked my bashrc.)
> 
> ulimit -n 11095

I can do this as root. But I'd like to do this as a normal user.

grape$ su -
Password:
grape# bash
[root at grape ~]# ulimit -n 11095
[root at grape ~]# ulimit -n
11095
[root at grape ~]# exit
grape# exit
logout

grape$ ulimit -n 11095
bash: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted
grape$ ulimit -n
1024

Any hints?

Thanks
Yusuke