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)

Already trie

Answer 1

Actually, I have tried the above answer, but it did not seem to work.

To get my containers to acknowledge the ulimit change, I had to update the docker.conf file before starting them:

$ sudo service docker stop
$ sudo bash -c "echo \"limit nofile 262144 262144\" >> /etc/init/docker.conf"
$ sudo service docker start