[syslog-ng] --fd-limit

Balazs Scheidler bazsi at balabit.hu
Wed Feb 10 08:24:50 CET 2010


On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 11:25 -0800, Rory Toma wrote:
> My understanding (now) is that you need to set --fd-limit *and* up the 
> ulimit. Simply updating ulimit is not sufficient for syslog-ng to be 
> able to handle more than the default 4k open files. Is this correct?


syslog-ng calls ulimit on its behalf, so you don't need to increase
ulimit, just pass a proper value to --fd-limit

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Bazsi




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