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  1. Jenkins
  2. JENKINS-51162

Open files limit is too low, limits.conf is ignored

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    • Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
      Jenkins 2.107.2 (installed and run on Amazon EC2 instance)
      java.runtime.name Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment
      java.runtime.version 1.8.0_171-b11

      /etc/security/limits.conf contains:

      jenkins     hard    nofile    500000
      jenkins     soft    nofile    500000

      But that is ignored by jenkins. Executing `ulimit -n` in the jenkins build "Execute shell command" section outputs 8192 instead of expected 500000.

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