How to bump ulimit?

[Michi Henning]

Typing "ubuntu more than 4096 file descriptors” into Google worked well for me.

Michi.


> On 15 Mar 2017, at 21:56 , Jacek Nykis <jacek.nykis at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a server application that hit max open files limit, which by
> default is set to 1024.
> 
> I'd like to bump that limit significantly but it appears that I can only
> go as high as 4096. When I try with value 4097 I'm getting this:
> 
> 7: ulimit: error setting limit (Operation not permitted)
> 
> Is there a way to increase ulimit values beyond 4096?
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Jacek
> 
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