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

[Steve]

On Sunday, August 30, 2020 at 10:26:04 AM UTC+10, Karl Schendel wrote:
> > On Aug 28, 2020, at 5:30 AM, Steve <s.ande... 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

Running Solaris 10.

I presume increasing the soft limit does not affect Ingres, in terms of its configuration, memory allocation, etc.

Will highlight the soft limit with the administrator, God willing. 

Thanks
Steve