<div dir="ltr">I'm using upstart to start an erlang web server. I'm using limit nofile to increase the number of allowed file descriptors but when checking the limits I'm still seeing the default. I'm getting errors for too many open file descriptors. Am I doing something wrong? When increasing the nofile in the /etc/security/limits.conf file, the errors goes away: * soft nofile 30000 * hard nofile 30000 I'm checking the beam (the process that is running the erlang vm) with: pidof beam cat /proc/<pid>/limits ... Max open files 1024 4096 files ... the upstart script: -------------------------- limit nofile 20000 20000 start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE!=lo) stop on runlevel [016] export HOME=/var/lib/myapp script exec sudo -u myapp -i myapp start end script pre-stop script exec sudo -u myapp -i myapp stop end script </div>