tldr/pages/common/ulimit.md

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ulimit

Get and set user limits.

  • Get the properties of all the user limits:

ulimit -a

  • Get hard limit for the number of simultaneously opened files:

ulimit -H -n

  • Get soft limit for the number of simultaneously opened files:

ulimit -S -n

  • Set max per-user process limit:

ulimit -u 30