Re[2]: snmpd handles limit

Yep, you're right. Been able to set it correctly on Ubuntu 14.04 
(/etc/security/limits.conf), but the same configuration does not seem to 
work on Ubuntu 16.04. Trying to figure out why.

Thanks for pointing this out.
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Christian Tardif



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De: "Eduardo Bragatto" <[email protected]>
À: [email protected]
Envoyé : 2016-08-30 17:04:44
Objet : Re: snmpd handles limit

>Hi,
>
>The error “too many open files” actually comes from the operating 
>system — it seems you’re reaching the limit of file descriptors a 
>process may keep open (some linux distros have that limit set to 1024 
>by default, which seems to be your case).
>
>You can increase this number by editing your system’s limit.conf file: 
>http://linux.die.net/man/5/limits.conf
>
>Please check the documentation of your distro for the proper way to 
>increase the number of file descriptors.
>
>
>Cheers
>-Eduardo Bragatto
>
>>On 30 de ago de 2016, at 9:43 AM, Tardif, Christian 
>><[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm using snmpd as a proxy to handle all my devices polling from a 
>>restricted environment to the production environment. Something like  
>>1400 devices. And I found that I can set up up to 1010 devices without 
>>any problem. But as soon as I enter more devices, the daemon does not 
>>start anymore, complaining that there are "Too many open files". I 
>>tried to increase this value (though I can't figure out the limit it 
>>breaks) to 4,000,000 handlers (from /prox/sys/fs/file-max (defaults to 
>>202,747). I can't create any more device anyway. So it must be 
>>something else that I can't find out.
>>
>>Is this something hardcoded in the library or a value in the config 
>>file that I could play with?
>>
>>Tks,
>>
>>--
>>Christian
>>
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