On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Kamil Paral kparal@redhat.com wrote:
(cross-posting to devel and desktop lists, ideally reply to both)
Debian and Ubuntu: I've installed both Debian (Sid) and Ubuntu (18.10) to verify this, and can confirm it. The default soft limit stays the same (1024), but the hard limit is increased from 4096 to 1048576 (2^20). However, this only applies to the systemd's system instance (systemd --system, PID 1), and not to systemd user instances (systemd --user).
It seems uncontroversial to at least raise it to 65535, about an order magnitude, rather than three. And apply it to both system and user instances.