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I am running Debian 6 and I am trying to increase the file descriptor limit but it does not want to work. This is what I have done:

I edited /etc/sysctl.conf by adding fs.file-max = 64000 at the end and applied the changes using sysctl -p.

I then edited /etc/security/limits.conf and added the following lines: * soft nofile 64000 and * hard nofile 64000.

Now when I execute ulimit -Hn and ulimit -Sn I still see 1024. I rebooted the server and I still get the same result. What have I failed to do?

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serverfault.com/questions/235356/… PS: No need to reboot after changing the /etc/security/limits.conf, just log out and log back in. – quanta Jul 27 '11 at 3:06
I did that too but I still get 1024 when executing ulimit -Hn and ulimit -Sn. Is this normal? If I changed the file descriptor hard and soft limit should it not give me the number I set it to? I am doing this because I run NGINX/PHP-FPM which is running low on descriptors. – Aco Jul 27 '11 at 4:17
I did not see the link you posted. It solved the problem. Thanks! +1 – Aco Jul 27 '11 at 5:11
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grep -lr pam_limits /etc/pam.d?

If it's not return common-session, run the following command:

echo -e "session\trequired\t\tpam_limits.so" > /etc/pam.d/common-session

logging out and in again to see it works.

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The command you did not work. But I do see /etc/pam.d/common-session in the directory pam.d directory. I'm not sure how that those commands will help, especially in Debian. – Aco Jul 27 '11 at 5:04
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