On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 11:33:31PM +0000, Robert Williamson wrote:
> Amir is busy and isn't answering his emails for a few weeks.
>
> Have you tried running
>
> ulimit -n 4096

Yes, I've set the soft limit at 8192 (hard limit twice that).

> as stated in the libbitcoin readme, here
> https://github.com/spesmilo/libbitcoin
>
> does running ulimit, return unlimited?

Yes.

> Leveldb requires lots of files to be open and the default limit on
> some systems is too low.
>
> I've only used libbitcoin/etc on ubuntu and debian, so I can't help
> much on the Arch side of things.

OK. I will try it on a Debian system sometime soon. Perhaps more
Arch-centric places, too.

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