On 24/04/2023 18:12, Ben Cotton wrote:
This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes
process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive
community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved
by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.
AFAIK, a small number is a security measure. Memory mappings are kernel
level objects, so poorly written applications can easily exhaust the
limit of the entire system and make it unusable.
If needed by Steam or Wine, they should provide a .conf file instead
rather than changing this setting system wide.
Steam from the RPM Fusion repository is already changing the
DefaultLimitNOFILE variable:
https://github.com/rpmfusion/steam/blob/master/01-steam.conf
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Sincerely,
Vitaly Zaitsev (vitaly(a)easycoding.org)