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prlimit

Get or set process resource soft and hard limits. Given a process ID and one or more resources, prlimit tries to retrieve and/or modify the limits. More information: https://manned.org/prlimit.
  • Display limit values for all current resources for the running parent process:
    prlimit
  • Display limit values for all current resources of a specified process:
    prlimit --pid {{pid number}}
  • Run a command with a custom number of open files limit:
    prlimit --nofile={{10}} {{command}}

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