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limits_not_recommended job from os-conf/9

This job is not recommended. Firstly, it blindly copies in a configuration file with no error-checking, potentially causing deployment failures. Secondly, it encourages the increase of system limits to work around broken BOSH jobs, when effort is better spent fixing the BOSH jobs (e.g. increasing `nofile` to get around a faulty long-running BOSH job that leaks file descriptors and finally fails).

Github source: 079d8d7 or master branch

Properties

limits_conf

Linux limits.conf file https://linux.die.net/man/5/limits.conf' Does not overwrite the existing limits.conf file; instead, it installs a secondary limits.conf file in /etc/security/limits.d/.

Default
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Example
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  vcap  soft  nofile  16384
  vcap  hard  nofile  16384

Templates

Templates are rendered and placed onto corresponding instances during the deployment process. This job's templates will be placed into /var/vcap/jobs/limits_not_recommended/ directory (learn more).

  • bin/pre-start (from pre-start.sh.erb)
  • etc/limits.conf (from limits.conf.erb)

Packages

Packages are compiled and placed onto corresponding instances during the deployment process. Packages will be placed into /var/vcap/packages/ directory.

This job relies on no runtime packages.