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Asked: 2018-06-05 10:47:56 +0800 CST

Can ulimit on containers within docker daemon process be higher than the limit of the daemon process itself?

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Can ulimit on containers within docker daemon process be higher than the limit of the daemon process itself?

Docker documentation does not mention anything about this:

From : https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/dockerd/#default-ulimit-settings

--default-ulimit allows you to set the default ulimit options to use for all containers. It takes the same options as --ulimit for docker run. If these defaults are not set, ulimit settings will be inherited, if not set on docker run, from the Docker daemon. Any --ulimit options passed to docker run will overwrite these defaults.

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  1. I've checked with Amazon Linux and it looks like it can.

    Let's check it via adjusting ulimit for max number of opened files:

    1. Max number of opened file limits of the docker daemon:
    cat /proc/$(ps -A | grep dockerd | awk '{print $1}')/limits | grep "files"

    If the docker daemon is running, the output is:

    Max open files            65536                65536                files
    1. Now run a docker container with adjusted ulimits (let it be python, but be sure another python does not run on your machine):
    # run container in daemon mode
docker run -d -it --rm --ulimit nofile=99999:99999 python python;
# show max files for the python process
cat /proc/$(ps -A | grep python | awk '{print $1}')/limits | grep "files"

    The output:

    Max open files            99999                99999                files
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