[libvirt] [PATCH] daemon: Allow overriding NOFILES ulimit for the daemon as well

[Michal Privoznik]

On 05.01.2012 11:50, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 11:16:32AM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> One of my latest patches (d8db0f9690) created support for setting
>> the limit for the maximum of opened files by qemu user. However,
>> since libvirtd keeps one FD opened per domain (well, for qemu at least)
>> it will likely hit this limit on huge scenarios.
>> ---
>>  daemon/libvirtd.aug  |    1 +
>>  daemon/libvirtd.c    |   37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  daemon/libvirtd.conf |    9 +++++++++
>>  3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> IMHO, this is the kind of thing that should be done by the
> system init scripts.
> 
> Daniel

In that case, can you give me a hint how to change that limit on RHEL-6?
Esp. when I am not running libvirtd service by hand but via Upstart
init? Because all my attempts to change /etc/security/limits.conf were
not successful.

Thanks

Michal