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Is there a hard limit to the number of files a directory can have? [duplicate]
Wondering if there is a limit to the number of files that can be stored inside a directory, in CentOS 6. There is one particular directory which could potentially have millions of subdirectories.
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limit filesystem cache size for specific files under linux
I have a directory with many files with high access rate. And I need to reduce the cache pressure of this specific directory to prevent other files (like my home directory files) from the pushing out ...
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Is it possible to increase the max limit of 10 pc's to any number of times without making the user a domain admin?
Normally a domain user has a maximum limit for 10 computers to join to a domain. But what i want to know is, is it possible (by joining a account to a group) to do this any number of times without ...
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Linux /etc/security/limits.conf explanation
Can anyone explain (or know of a source) that provides details about the items in limits.conf? The man page doesn't give much detail.
For example it says:
rtprio
maximum realtime priority allowed ...
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If I upgrade an ext3 fs to ext4, will it automatically increase the maximum amount of directories per directory?
Due to an external unavoidable situation*, I need to have more than 32k directories in a directory (but as far as I can tell, less than 64k). I'm hitting the limit of ext3. I presume the original ...
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Iptables - limiting connections to port range
I want to limit connections to my server to one connection per second on every port in range 10000:65535
I started using this rule:
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --syn --dport 10000:65535 -m connlimit ...
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How to set memory limit on OS level to overcome problems with “Burstable memory service”?
I have VPS. It has Burstable memory service. My guaranteed memory limit is 1GB. I want linux not to take more that 1GB to programs on OS level. How to do it?
It is ubuntu server.
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Limiting traffic in network [closed]
Can I limit bandwidth for every client or vlan in my network ?
The purpose is to prevent downloading managers from taking all the bandwidth and cause other computers to have a very slow Internet ...
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From which Apache version onward is LimitRequestFieldSize no longer hardcoded to 8k max?
Title says it all:
from which version onward is the LimitRequestFieldSize no longer hardcoded to a max. of 8k?
It seems 2.2.15 is still affected.
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Can I globally set to cut off too big cron e-mails?
Is there a way to limit the body of all e-mails sent out by cron (to MAILTO receivers) to a specific length. If the particular output exceeds the limit, it just gets cutt off at that point.
Is there ...
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When NOT to use virtualisation?
When virtualisation was new, we tried to virtualise everything, but then we noticed use cases where the our virtual machines were much slower than a bare metal.
For us, we use the following rules ...
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Finding the source of a ulimit setting
On my CentOS 6.2 server the value of ulimit -v (virtual memory) is 1048576. However, this is not set in /etc/security/limits.conf (which is empty) or .../limit.d/ (which contains only a max processes ...
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Monitor open files limits, etc
We've been hitting the max open files limit on a few services recently. There are also a bunch of other limits in place. Is there a way to monitor how close processes are to these limits so we can be ...
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Message: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Too many links
We run a web application as a production. Some days ago I discovered the error signed in subject of this theme. I know what's the problem, but want to ask, what is right way for resolve this? Yes, we ...
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Reload /etc/security/limits.conf
I would like to:
make a soft 64GB limit for resident memory (so inexperienced users will get their run-amok processes killed, but experienced users can raise the limit for memory hungry processes)
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Limiting specific process to just one per user
My scripts are using wget to retrieve data from Internet. When many users are using this script I got very high load (about 20.00), because of disk I/O. Wget is automatically started each hour by ...
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Maximum Size Limit for CIFS Share Accessed by Windows Server 2003 (32 bit) Client?
We have a CIFS share being served out by a NETAPP appliance. The CIFS share has grown to over 2 TB in size. A Windows Server 2003 32 bit-client accesses the share.
Lets say, for example, the ...
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how do i set hard and soft file limits for a non-root user at boot?
I have a xen HVM vps and I'm trying to raise the hard and soft file limits for nobody at boot time. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04.3 and inside /etc/security/limits.conf I have:
nobody soft nofile ...
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Debian virt/res/shr and cpu time limiting
Servers have multiple users running multiple programs, some of which don't seem to behave and will eat up RAM like there is no tomorrow, for example:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU ...
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Setup MySQL per account limits similar to shared hosting
Similar questions have been asked before, such as this one, but none of the answers I've seen so far really tell me what I'm after.
I have a need to set up a Linux box for internal development and ...
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What are performance limits of a database?
What are some rough performance limits (read/s, write/s) for a single database server (no master-slave architecture), assuming storage on disk? How many read/s, write/s, depending on the kind of disk? ...
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Setup “open files” limit in Linux per user. Cannot setup more than 1024
I try to increase open file limit for certain user on CentOS 5.5 Linux.
I added a new line to /etc/security/limits.conf:
seed hard nofile 10240
Then do test:
runuser -s /bin/bash - ...
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Program that limits net transfer
I have a router and I need control and watch my users' transfer in my local subnet. How should I do that? What software should I use?
My router is ASMAX Br-615n.
I hope you'll answer to this. ...
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Why does IIS seem to be limiting simultaneous connections?
One of the ASP.NET web apps that we have allows users to download relatively large files that can take a bit of time to fetch. For reasons I don't understand, it looks to me like any given client is ...
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Fork-bomb Protection on OS X - Limit processes with ulimit?
Got introduced to the fascinating world of UNIX about a year ago, but after, for lack of a better expression, "the waste-matter colliding with the rapidly spinning blades" today as a result of my ...
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Process limit for user in Linux
This is the standard question, "How do I set a process limit for a user account in Linux to prevent fork-bombing," with an additional twist. The running program originates as a root-owned Python ...
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