Can you modify open files?

[spuder]

Can you modify the max number of open files with this cookbook?

The default is 1024

ulimit -n 2048

[bmhatfield]

Yes!

Check out https://github.com/bmhatfield/chef-ulimit#usage

Good luck!

[bmhatfield]

Resolved in the #chef IRC room.

[spuder]

I've tried the following

user_ulimit 'kafka' do
  rule do
    item :nofile
    type :hard
    value 10000
  end
  rule do
    item :nofile
    type :soft
    value 5000
  end
end

While it did create a file at /etc/security/limits.d/kafka_limits.conf, it is pretty much a blank file.

# Limits settings for kafka













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https://gist.github.com/bmhatfield/99c8a1f4a71231d8449b

However I don't acutally need to use this cookbook, as pointed out in the IRC chanel, the kafka cookbook has build in support for modifying the ulimit

https://github.com/mthssdrbrg/kafka-cookbook/blob/master/templates/default/upstart/default.erb#L10-L12

[bmhatfield]

Hi,
You used the ulimit_domain syntax in the user_ulimit resource, which is why it isn't working :-)