Max File Descriptor Count:

Wowza Streaming Engine
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I run wowza as a user wowza, and I am using daemontools for managing the process.

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

This works great. I noticed that max file descriptor is low.

INFO server comment - Max File Descriptor Count: 1024

Now I have setup the limits.conf and increased it to 65535 with the following.

/etc/security/limits.conf

wowza - nofile 65535

Am I missing something?

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Edit [install-dir]/bin/setenv.sh and uncomment the ulimit line in the script.

Charlie

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This is the tuning guide:

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-do-performance-tuning

Richard

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This worked. I assumed that if I increased the number in /etc/security/limits.conf that it would automatically be set for the user running the process. Is there a way to increase it automatically without the ulimit (just curious). I will use the ulimit in the script.

Also I see the value in the script is set to 20000, what is the optimal value for this. Is there a doc on performance tuning on linux. Thanks