Re: [condor-users] Fwd: [Medusa-users] ulimit -a

[Scott Koranda <skoranda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Hmmmm. The limit is not being set in /etc/profile. It is being set in
/etc/security/limits.conf, but perhaps your failure mechanism is the
correct one.

Thanks, I will dig deeper.

Cheers,

Scott

> Can it be that you changed the number of open files in a script, which 
> does not get executed for user "nobody"? E.g., /etc/profile gets 
> executed for normal users, but not for user "nobody" under which Condor 
> normally runs jobs?
> 
> Regards,
> Alexander Klyubin
> 
> Scott Koranda wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >We recently changed the nodes in our cluster to allow 2048 open file
> >descriptors rather than the standard 1024. On any node in our cluster
> >I see the following:
> >
> >[skoranda@medusa-slave001 ]$ ulimit -n
> >2048
> >
> >But as the user below points out, when the ulimit is run via Condor in
> >the vanilla universe we always get 1024 and not 2048.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Scott
> >
> >----- Forwarded message from Vladimir Dergachev 
> ><volodya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -----
> >
> >Subject: [Medusa-users] ulimit -a
> >Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 20:15:41 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> >
> >It was a while since I needed to run my statistics generating program that
> >needs to open many files at once, and for some reason I can not do it
> >using condor.
> >
> >condor_run "ulimit -a" reports limit of open files as 1024, but when I rsh
> >to a node and run ulimit -a myself I get 2048 (as it should be after
> >recent changes).
> >
> >Would anyone have a suggestion how I can explain to condor not to lower
> >the limit ?
> >
> >                   thank you !
> >
> >                        Vladimir Dergachev
> >
> >
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