On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote:

# >  At startup time,
# > wherever it makes most sense, all one needs to do is up the soft limit
# > on a per-case basis.
#
# It's not that kind of a soft limit though -- I think you have to change
# OPEN_MAX if you're going to bump the default value for ulimit(nofiles).

Default, yes; highest allowed, no.

$ ulimit -n
64
$ ulimit -n 128
$ ulimit -n
128
$

So the process can actually self-adjust its ulimit(nofiles).

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