ulimit in the ubuntu package

[Sergey Budnevitch]

On 4  Jun2013, at 16:39 , Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 04:30:40PM +0400, Sergey Budnevitch wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 4  Jun2013, at 15:39 , pablo platt <pablo.platt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'm using the ubuntu package from nginx.org.
>>> 
>>> In the package from the official ubuntu repo, you can set file descriptor limit by changing /etc/default/nginx
>>> # Check if the ULIMIT is set in /etc/default/nginx
>>> if [ -n "$ULIMIT" ]; then
>>>    # Set the ulimits
>>>    ulimit $ULIMIT
>>> fi
>> 
>> ulimit without flags sets max file size in blocks, not file descriptor limit, so
>> you may fill a bug in their bug tracker.
> 
> I think the expected use is to supply arguments within the ULIMIT 
> variable.

You are probably right.