how to set ulimit / file descriptor on docker container the image tag is phusion/baseimage-docker

Question

I need to set the file descriptor limit correctly on the docker container I connect to container with ssh (https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker)

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Answer 1

The latest docker supports setting ulimits through the command line and the API. For instance, docker run takes --ulimit =: and there can be as many of these as you like. So, for your nofile, an example would be --ulimit nofile=262144:262144