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Swat
Asked: 2018-01-09 16:10:26 +0800 CST

How to increase the descriptors in nexus

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I am trying to update nexus from 3.2.0 to nexus 3.7.1 ,getting a max file descriptors error message

using docker container sonatype/nexus3:3.7.1

i tried to increase the descriptors to 65536 but it is not reflecting when i try with ulimit

I did: cat /etc/security/limits.conf

nexus hard nofile 65536 nexus soft nofile 65536

restarted my docker container

values: ulimit -n 1024 ulimit -Hn 4096 ulimit -Sn 1024

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  1. Best Answer

    Looks to be explained in the Nexus docs here https://help.sonatype.com/repomanager3/system-requirements#SystemRequirements-AdequateFileHandleLimits

    On most Linux systems, persistent limits can be set for a particular user by editing the /etc/security/limits.conf file. To set the maximum number of open files for both soft and hard limits for the nexus user to 65536, add the following line to the /etc/security/limits.conf file, where "nexus" should be replaced with the user ID that is being used to run the repository manager:

    nexus - nofile 65536

    This change will only take effect the next time the nexus process user opens a new session. Which essentially means that you will need to restart NXRM.

    On Ubuntu systems there is a caveat: Ubuntu ignores the /etc/security/limits.conf file for processes started by init.d.

    So if NXRM is started using init.d there, edit /etc/pam.d/common-session and uncomment the following line ( remove the hash # and space at the beginning of the line):

    # session    required   pam_limits.so

    For more information refer to your specific operating system documentation.

    If you're using systemd to launch the server the above won't work. Instead, modify the configuration file to add a LimitNOFILE line:

    [Unit] 
Description=nexus service 
After=network.target

[Service] 
Type=forking  
LimitNOFILE=65536
ExecStart=/opt/nexus/bin/nexus start 
ExecStop=/opt/nexus/bin/nexus stop 
User=nexus 
Restart=on-abort

[Install] 
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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