prlimit

Get or set process resource soft and hard limits.

Given a process ID and one or more resources, prlimit tries to retrieve and/or modify the limits.

• Display limit values for all current resources for the running parent process:

prlimit

• Display limit values for all current resources of a specified process:

prlimit --pid {pid number}

• Run a command with a custom number of open files limit:

prlimit --nofile={10} {command}

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