raise ulimit?

[Adam Langley]

On 5/25/05, alexyz at uol.com.br <alexyz at uol.com.br> wrote:
> This is an interesting warning message:
> 
> [warn] connection_add(): Failing because we have 991 connections already. Please raise
> your ulimit -n.
> 
> Got several of them and don´t know what to do. I am not using bandwidth limiting, if that´s
> what it is refering to.

Tor will try to set the soft fd rlimit (ulimit is probably a bad name)
at startup to the value of MaxConn in the config file (if it exists),
or to the hard limit. This is a kernel imposed limit on the number of
file descriptors.

In some shells this can be set by `ulimit -n number`, in others it's
`limit desc number`. Non-root users cannot raise their hard limit, and
this is often set in /etc/security/limit.conf.

A harder limit exists on Linux systems which is the value of
/proc/sys/fs/file-max (again, can only be set by root)

Sorry, it's not possible to be more specific without knowing exactly
how your system is setup.

(see man setrlimit(2))



AGL

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