[Info-ingres] File descriptor soft limit for the NET Server

[Karl Schendel]

> On Aug 28, 2020, at 5:30 AM, Steve <s.anderson.au at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ingres reported the following warning on startup:
> 
> WARNING!!! The recommended file descriptor soft limit for the NET Server to service 64 inbound, and 64 outbound connections is 261. The current file descriptor soft limit is set to 256.
> ...
> ulimit -a
> nofiles(descriptors) 256
> 
> ulimit -aH
> nofiles(descriptors) 65536
> 
> Don't know why there is such a big difference between the soft and hard limits?

This is generally set by some sort of system configuration file; what
OS are you running?  Any change was likely caused either by an OS upgrade
or some sort of system admin action; Ingres has little or no say in it.

Karl