I am doing an initial POC/trial for using Nexus at my company. When I open admin pages for Nexus Repository I get this warning: System Requirement: max file descriptors [4096] likely too low, increase to at least [65536]. I have followed the instructions at https://help.sonatype.com/repomanager…

The Nexus Repository process is not seeing the change you made. You may find this page helpful as well: The nexus.log file is full of "too many open files" exceptions, how can I fix this? – Sonatype Support If you have changed limits.conf, the “nexus” in the examples is the OS user id. If you are r…

Please help with setting max file descriptors

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rseddon (Rich Seddon) June 21, 2018, 4:38pm 3

See here for specific instructions on configuring file handle limits:

https://help.sonatype.com/display/NXRM3/System+Requirements#SystemRequirements-AdequateFileHandleLimits

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Please help with setting max file descriptors

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