https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-high-can-we-safely-set-max-fd-in-limits-conf-on-the/m-p/280160#M53625 <P>This has been answered in this blog.</P> <P><A href="http://blogs.splunk.com/2011/11/21/whats-your-ulimit/">http://blogs.splunk.com/2011/11/21/whats-your-ulimit/</A></P> Fri, 16 Dec 2016 13:22:10 GMT Claw 2016-12-16T13:22:10Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-high-can-we-safely-set-max-fd-in-limits-conf-on-the/m-p/280159#M53624 <P>We have large number of log files to ingest and the machine shows -</P> <PRE><CODE>$ ulimit -n 64000 </CODE></PRE> <P>How high can we set the <CODE>max_fd</CODE> in <CODE>limits.conf</CODE> of the forwarder?</P> <PRE><CODE>[inputproc] max_fd = &lt;8192 ???&gt; </CODE></PRE> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 20:04:45 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-high-can-we-safely-set-max-fd-in-limits-conf-on-the/m-p/280159#M53624 ddrillic 2016-12-14T20:04:45Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-high-can-we-safely-set-max-fd-in-limits-conf-on-the/m-p/280160#M53625 <P>This has been answered in this blog.</P> <P><A href="http://blogs.splunk.com/2011/11/21/whats-your-ulimit/">http://blogs.splunk.com/2011/11/21/whats-your-ulimit/</A></P> Fri, 16 Dec 2016 13:22:10 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-high-can-we-safely-set-max-fd-in-limits-conf-on-the/m-p/280160#M53625 Claw 2016-12-16T13:22:10Z