[chef] Re: recipes to bootstrap for things like ulimit etc.

[Zuhaib Siddique < >]

So we have a cookbook called "performance" which does a bunch of tweaks for 
us that we use.  One of them for Ubuntu is set the pam.d/common-session and 
/etc/security/limits.conf.  Its important you set it for both root and the 
user you wish to use the ulimit setting for.

the code looks  like this:

template "/etc/security/limits.conf" do
  source "limits.conf.erb"
  owner "root"
  group "root"
  mode "0644"  
  variables(
    :user => node[:ulimit][:user],
    :soft => node[:ulimit][:soft],
    :hard => node[:ulimit][:hard]
  )
end

/etc/security/limits.conf
<%= @user %>    soft    nofile          <%= @soft %>
<%= @user %>    hard    nofile          <%= @hard %>
# End of file

root  soft  nofile  64000
root  hard  nofile  65000


and you need to add common-session this:
session required        pam_limits.so

I should oensource that cookbook.

Zuhaib
On May 13, 2012, at 4:37 AM, S Ahmed 
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 wrote:

> Are there any good bootstrap type recipes that you would want to run on all 
> servers.
> 
> I'm thinking things like changing the # of file descriptionts (ulimit) etc.