[rabbitmq-discuss] Increasing the file descriptors limit

Thu Jan 17 19:50:40 GMT 2013

On 17/01/13 16:25, Jean Paul Galea wrote:
> Only the following needs to be done:
>
> cat > /etc/default/rabbitmq-server << "EOF"
> # This file is sourced by /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server. Its primary
> # reason for existing is to allow adjustment of system limits for the
> # rabbitmq-server process.
> #
> # Maximum number of open file handles. This will need to be increased
> # to handle many simultaneous connections. Refer to the system
> # documentation for ulimit (in man bash) for more information.
> #
> ulimit -n 102400
> EOF
>
> This file is already created by the rabbitmq-server package, except that
> the last line is commented out and has a different value.

Ah yes. That is in fact documented at 
http://www.rabbitmq.com/install-debian.html#debian-system-limits.

Matthias.