The following sample
limits.conf file
restricts all users, and then sets different limits for others. In
this sample, the handles were set to 8192.
* soft nofile 1024
* hard nofile 2048
root soft nofile 4096
root hard nofile 8192
user1 soft nofile 2048
user1 hard nofile 2048
The asterisk (
*)
in the example sets the limits for all users first. These limits are
lower than the limits that follow. The root user has a higher number
of allowable handles open, while number available to user1 is between
the higher and lower numbers. Before you change the
limits.conf file,
make sure that you read and understand the documentation contained
in that file.