[dev] increase FD limit

[Donald Sharp]

Venky -

the frr start script looks for MAX_FDS being defined to tell it what
it should use as the ulimit for fd's.

donald

On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 5:44 AM B Paris <chaos999 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>   when we try to scale the number of sessions we seem to be hitting the FD limit
> and get the below error. Is there a way to increase the FD limit, currently it seems to
> be set at 1024. This is with 6.0 release - frr-6.0-001.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm
>
> 2019/04/08 05:14:38 BGP: [Error] BGP socket accept failed (Too many open files)
> 2019/04/08 05:14:38 BGP: [Error] BGP socket accept failed (Too many open files)
> 2019/04/08 05:14:38 BGP: [Error] BGP socket accept failed (Too many open files)
> 2019/04/08 05:14:38 BGP: [Error] BGP socket accept failed (Too many open files)
> 2019/04/08 05:14:38 BGP: [Error] BGP socket accept failed (Too many open files)
> 2019/04/08 05:14:38 BGP: [Error] BGP socket accept failed (Too many open files)
> 2019/04/08 05:14:38 BGP: [Error] BGP socket accept failed (Too many open files)
> 2019/04/08 05:14:38 BGP: [Error] BGP socket accept failed (Too many open files)
> 2019/04/08 05:14:38 BGP: [Error] BGP socket accept failed (Too many open files)
> 2019/04/08 05:14:38 BGP: [Error] BGP socket accept failed (Too many open files)
>
> thanks,
> Venky
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