11 Nov
2013
11 Nov
'13
12:37 a.m.
On 11 November 2013 10:31, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
On Fri, 8 Nov 2013, Arjen Lentz <arjen@lentz.com.au> wrote:
Some settings such as ulimit -n (open-files-limit) cannot be done from inside the daemon.
Sure they can, setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, ...
Why do you want to set an open files limit anyway? If a mysqld gets in a state where it opens more files than expected is having the open/pipe/accept call fail going to be the best thing for the system?
I suspect they were trying to *increase* the default, rather than lower it?