Comment 15 for bug 1155695

Michael,

We do run the database software as unprivileged users, yes. Previously, our installation instructions have advised configuring appropriate values in /etc/sysctl.d/*.conf and /etc/security/limits.d/*.conf for the system limits and per-user limits, respectively. After kernel 3.5+, that strategy obviously doesn't work so well any longer.

It would be really good to bump the kernel hard limit upward some from the much-too-harsh 1024, even if the patch also otherwise improves handling for privileged users.