# The ALICE software framework uses many processes (not only multi-threading). # Each processes mapped libraries trigger open files to the cvmfs cache. # On many-core nodes, this can overflow the 128k default limit for cvmfs # processes. # See https://github.com/cvmfs/cvmfs/issues/3067 for details. if [ -z $CVMFS_NFILES ] || [ $CVMFS_NFILES -lt 524288 ]; then CVMFS_NFILES=524288 fi # As of cvmfs 2.11, the refcounted cache manager keeps the number of open # file descriptors of the cvmfs2 process under control. # Note: we are gradually rolling out this setting, starting with the ALICE # repository. This setting is intended to be the future default. CVMFS_CACHE_REFCOUNT=true