Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] daemon: Allow overriding NOFILES ulimit for the daemon as well

On 05.01.2012 11:50, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 11:16:32AM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote: >> One of my latest patches (d8db0f9690) created support for setting >> the limit for the maximum of opened files by qemu user. However, >> since libvirtd keeps one FD opened per domain (well, for qemu at least) >> it will likely hit this limit on huge scenarios. >> --- >> daemon/libvirtd.aug | 1 + >> daemon/libvirtd.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> daemon/libvirtd.conf | 9 +++++++++ >> 3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > IMHO, this is the kind of thing that should be done by the > system init scripts. > > Daniel In that case, can you give me a hint how to change that limit on RHEL-6? Esp. when I am not running libvirtd service by hand but via Upstart init? Because all my attempts to change /etc/security/limits.conf were not successful.