Today's article is a bit more complicated than some, but not much. It's about open file limits.

[KGIII]

Frankly, very few of you have good reasons to go mucking about with these settings - but sometimes you do need to make some adjustments. Also, there's the whole 'because I can' reason, which I suppose will suffice.

Let's Learn How To Change The Open File Limit In Linux • Linux Tips

Today, lacking anything better to do, we're going to learn how to change the open file limit in Linux. Read on to learn how!

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So, go change those open file limits. Unless you set them absurdly low, you probably won't actually break anything - or even make a difference.

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[bob466]

Another good article but I'll leave things be.

 

[KGIII]

Yeah, there's really no reason for you to change those values. In fact, there's no reason for most people to change those settings. Now, if you're on a supercomputer and need to have a ton of files open at once, you might want to change things.

That describes pretty much none of us on linux.org.