Please help me with Terminal/Lutris limits

ssilva99100

Hi, as a new Linux user, and a recently converted Solus user, I've been having a hard time getting to install serveral games on Lutris. Since there aren't many Solus help forums, I'm a bit lost in all the process. As soon as I try to start a game, a message appears saying my limits aren't set properly. I've dug in and executed several commands to fix it:
prlimit --nofile:1000:524288

ulimit -Hn 524288

sudo nano /etc/security/limits.conf and edited the Hard and soft correctly.

in the end I came up with this:

sam@sam ~ $ ulimit -Hn
4096
sam@sam ~ $ sudo -i -u sam
sam@sam ~ $ ulimit -Hn
524288
sam@sam ~ $

I don't know how to fix this.

Please help. Thanks

Justin

ssilva99100 What does tail -n 10 /etc/security/limits.conf show? I'll show the entry from my file as I use esync on Overwatch:

tail -n 10 /etc/security/limits.conf
#@faculty        soft    nproc           20
#@faculty        hard    nproc           50
#ftp             hard    nproc           0
#@student        -       maxlogins       4
justin           hard    nofile          524288
*                hard    core            0
*                soft    nofile          10000
*                hard    nofile          10000

# End of file

Flo

Hi there 🙂
Did you followed that tutorial ? : https://github.com/lutris/lutris/wiki/How-to:-Esync
If I understood, when you use uimit -Hn in sudo you got the right feedback and no without ?
Also, even if it's not perfect, you can just disable Esync in the game option :S

ssilva99100

Flo Thanks, I disabled Esync and it's running ok. Thanks a lot for the help

Drewfus

Flo

Flo
forgive my ignorance, but I am having same problem, and can't find an option within Lutris to disable esync for Diablo 3
Any tips or things I am missing?
Thanks in advance, Drew

ssilva99100

Thank you Flo for the reply.

I followed that tutorial and have tried to understand it for a while.
Done everything the same way asked, as I mentioned I edited the /etc/security/limits.conf file.
Regarding the terminal I mentioned, yes.
When I used the sudo -i -u sam (my username) and then I do ulimit -Hn, the value is correct at 524288 (the value advised by the esync tutorial you mentioned)
But as soon as I exit bash, and do ulimit -Hn the value is back to 4096

Boggle247

Justin Hey, I can't get the command ulimit -Hn to return the proper limit of 524288, only 4096. Here is my etc/security/limits.conf file: I entered a line like yours for my username (anon), saved it, then rebooted and the ulimit -Hn command still returns 4096

Justin

Boggle247 I had issues with this as well recently after a re-install. However, I've been able to launch Overwatch (all I play though Lutris at the moment) without issue. I would submit an issue on the Lutris Github page to see if something has changed in regards to their instructions.

Boggle247

Justin I found the solution, just follow the systemd modifications per that github page:

Modifying Systemd configuration
This method applies to Ubuntu and other systems using systemd (some systemd distros can also use the limits.conf method below). You (with root privileges or sudo) need to edit both /etc/systemd/system.conf and /etc/systemd/user.confby adding DefaultLimitNOFILE=524288 . If DefaultLimitNOFILE= already exist in both system.conf and user.conf, add 524288 after = and make sure to uncomment the line (remove the #) to make it functional.

Once the files are edited, restart your computer for the changes to take effect. To verify if the limits were applied, run ulimit -Hn to see open files limit (it should report 524288).

If the value printed still says something like 4096, try the ulimits method below.

I rebooted and ran ulimit -Hn and now it's reporting 524288!

Note: I also still have the other edit (that you showed above) to the /etc/security/limits.conf file. So Idk if that ALSO needs to be done?

Staudey

Drewfus
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Drewfus

durp... Thank you.