Solaris

Hello,

I need to increase the maximum number of open files for the Gnome configuration daemon, /usr/lib/gconfd-2. There is one of these for each username, no matter how many sessions they've got.

We have lots of people using DTUs to log into a Sun Ray server using the same account (bad idea, I know, but it wasn't my bad idea), and we are hitting the default limit of 256, as confirmed by errors in /var/opt/SUNWut/log/messages, and by counting the number of descriptors in /proc/<pid>/fd. The server is running Solaris 10 x86.

So what's the best way to increase the limit? I want to do it just for this process, not for every process owner by that username.

Regards,
Phil T

This is Unix, so there's always more than one way to skin that cat...

I would suggest the OP review the man pages for project(4), resource_controls(5), projadd(1M) and others related to projects.

I've read the man pages, and can't find a way of using projects to set default resource limits for a given executable (in my case /usr/lib/gconfd-2). How can I increase limits for processes running this image, but not for other processes?

This would be easy if I had control over whatever starts gconfd-2 (I could use newtask for example), but I don't.

Check -c option of newtask.