Getting ulimit to work with SSH and s...

Getting ulimit to work with SSH and stick across reboots

 

Add the following to /etc/sysctl.conf

 

fs.file-max = 104032  (substitute 104032 for whatever is appropriate to your environment)

 

then run:

sysctl -p

 

Add the following to /etc/security/limits.conf: (note that ulimit -n always reports the soft limit so if no soft limit is set it will always report the default of 1024)

  *  soft  nofile   4096

  *  hard  nofile  104032

 

Add the following to /etc/pam.d/login:

 session    required     pam_limits.so

 

Add the following to /etc/pam.d/sshd:

 session    required     pam_limits.so

 

Add the following to /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

 UsePAM yes

 

then run:

service sshd restart