[rabbitmq-discuss] Changing file descriptor limit wihtout restart?

[Michael Klishin]

On 5 July 2014 at 22:56:11, Jakov Sosic (jsosic at gmail.com) wrote:
> > I know I can do it by setting up limits.conf and restarting RabbitMQ  
> nodes but I would prefer to do it without node downtime if possible.  

ulimit changes will only be effective after OS process restart.
This is true for all processes, RabbitMQ or not. 
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MK  

Staff Software Engineer, Pivotal/RabbitMQ