journal: bump RLIMIT_NOFILE when journal files to 16K (if possible)

When there are a lot of split out journal files, we might run out of fds
quicker then we want. Hence: bump RLIMIT_NOFILE to 16K if possible.

Do these even for journalctl. On Fedora the soft RLIMIT_NOFILE is at 1K,
the hard at 4K by default for normal user processes, this code hence
bumps this up for users to 4K.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179980

3 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/journal/journalctl.c b/src/journal/journalctl.c
index 62931f14c9..db9576c493 100644
--- a/src/journal/journalctl.c
+++ b/src/journal/journalctl.c
@@ -1722,6 +1722,11 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
         signal(SIGWINCH, columns_lines_cache_reset);
         sigbus_install();
 
+        /* Increase max number of open files to 16K if we can, we
+         * might needs this when browsing journal files, which might
+         * be split up into many files. */
+        setrlimit_closest(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &RLIMIT_MAKE_CONST(16384));
+
         if (arg_action == ACTION_NEW_ID128) {
                 r = generate_new_id128();
                 goto finish;
diff --git a/src/shared/util.h b/src/shared/util.h
index 31103e957f..3b3035a1c7 100644
--- a/src/shared/util.h
+++ b/src/shared/util.h
@@ -1074,3 +1074,5 @@ int same_fd(int a, int b);
 
 int chattr_fd(int fd, bool b, int mask);
 int chattr_path(const char *p, bool b, int mask);
+
+#define RLIMIT_MAKE_CONST(lim) ((struct rlimit) { lim, lim })
diff --git a/src/systemctl/systemctl.c b/src/systemctl/systemctl.c
index 679541493a..86b5ae0b03 100644
--- a/src/systemctl/systemctl.c
+++ b/src/systemctl/systemctl.c
@@ -7409,6 +7409,11 @@ int main(int argc, char*argv[]) {
                 goto finish;
         }
 
+        /* Increase max number of open files to 16K if we can, we
+         * might needs this when browsing journal files, which might
+         * be split up into many files. */
+        setrlimit_closest(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &RLIMIT_MAKE_CONST(16384));
+
         if (!avoid_bus())
                 r = bus_open_transport_systemd(arg_transport, arg_host, arg_scope != UNIT_FILE_SYSTEM, &bus);