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mohd280
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change ulimit permanently on hp-ux 11.31

Hi there ,

 

     I went through many discusstion here but still cannot find how can this be done. Current value of ulimit -n is 2048

 

I need to change it to 65536 or unlimited as required on from Oracle .

 

 

    I'm not fully aware of HP-UX but know how change values and kernel parameter , if I can change it from /etc/profile 

what lines need to be added .

 

 

   Thanks ....

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Dennis Handly
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Re: change ulimit -n permanently on HP-UX 11.31

In order to increase "ulimit -n" you must use kctune(1m) to increase maxfiles_lim(5):

kctune maxfiles_lim=65535

mohd280
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Re: change ulimit permanently on hp-ux 11.31

Thanks dennis , so after increasing this value . All users get effected like root and oracle or more work need to be done!
Dennis Handly
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Re: change ulimit -n permanently on HP-UX 11.31

>All users get effected like root and oracle or more work need to be done.

 

Try using "ulimit -n", if that hasn't changed, you may have to login again.

mohd280
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Re: change ulimit -n permanently on HP-UX 11.31

Thank you . Wokred perfectly . 

mohd280
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Re: change ulimit -n permanently on HP-UX 11.31

Still when logout the default value disappear . Do I need to put in profile
Dennis Handly
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Re: change ulimit -n permanently on HP-UX 11.31

>Still when logout the default value disappear . Do I need to put in profile?

 

No, this should be permanent.  Unless there is already something in /etc/profile or ~/.profile that changes it.

Dennis Handly
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Re: change ulimit -n permanently on HP-UX 11.31

>Thank you. Worked perfectly.

 

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Stephenred
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Re: change ulimit -n permanently on HP-UX 11.31

worked beautifully-thanks


@Dennis Handly wrote:

In order to increase "ulimit -n" you must use kctune(1m) to increase maxfiles_lim(5):

kctune maxfiles_lim=65535