Is there a maximum of open files per process in Linux?
- by Malax
My question is pretty simple and is actually stated in the title. One of my applications throws errors regarding "too many open files" at me, even tho the limit for the user the application runs with is higher than the default of 1024 (lsof -u $USER reports 3000 open fds).
Because I cannot imagine why this happens, I guess there might be a maximum per process.
Any idea is very appreciated!
Edit: Some values that might help...
root@Debian-60-squeeze-64-minimal ~ # ulimit -n
100000
root@Debian-60-squeeze-64-minimal ~ # tail -n 4 /etc/security/limits.conf
myapp soft nofile 100000
myapp hard nofile 1000000
root soft nofile 100000
root hard nofile 1000000
root@Debian-60-squeeze-64-minimal ~ # lsof -n -u myapp | wc -l
2708
