Streams dependency checker fails with ulimit warning
The Streams 3.2.1 dependency checker fails with a ulimit warning.
Increase the ulimit property as follows.
Procedure
- Log in as root to the Linux server on which you are trying to install Streams and edit the 90-nproc.conf file located in the /etc/security/limits.d folder.
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Edit the file to have following entries.
# Default limit for number of user's processes to prevent # accidental fork bombs. # See rhbz #432903 for reasoning. * soft nproc 4096 root soft nproc unlimited
- Restart the Linux server on which you are trying to install Streams.
- Log in to Streams as the streamsadmin user.
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Execute the following command.
ulimit -a
. The outcome should include a line like this.max user processes (-u) 4096
.