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

[Bob Ippolito]

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

-bob