I have a process running as the gearman user and I want to change open files
to avoid getting this nasty error:
ERROR 2014-09-12 17:49:14.000000 [ main ] accept(Too many open files) -> libgearman-server/gearmand.cc:788
How can I run ulimit as another user on Ubuntu and change open files? I don't currently login as gearman but I do have root access. I tried doing this:
su gearman --shell /bin/bash --command "ulimit -n"
as recommended here but nothing get's output:
$ su gearman --shell /bin/bash --command "ulimit -n"
Password:
$
Best Answer
Revisiting this just because I stumbled across it during a Google search and found Tony's comment to be useful: while it's true that limits are placed at the process level, the way you would determine the limits in place for a particular user would be to find the processes they've started and then check the
proc/${id}/limits
.Specifically: