http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038004 Bug ID: 1038004 Summary: Cannot increase max number of descriptors Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Distribution Version: Leap 42.2 Hardware: x86-64 OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem Assignee: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com Reporter: Joachim.Reichelt@helmholtz-hzi.de QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- As we need for parallel processing of a huge number of files we want to increase the number of file descriptors for a user. I changed in: /etc/security/limits.conf * hard nofile 12000 and /etc/systemd/user.conf DefaultLimitNOFILE=40960 but after reboot: [jr@nalani:~]>unlimit [jr@nalani:~]>limit cputime unlimited filesize unlimited datasize unlimited stacksize unlimited coredumpsize unlimited memoryuse unlimited vmemoryuse unlimited descriptors 4096 memorylocked 64 kbytes maxproc 23536 maxlocks unlimited maxsignal 23536 maxmessage 819200 maxnice 0 maxrtprio 0 maxrttime unlimited -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.