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That “nasty” gnome-shell kept having 1024. So searching for more info I found https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=208658 where oconnor663 suggested to create /etc/systemd/system.conf.d/nofile.conf with
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Paolo Redaelli
That “nasty” gnome-shell kept having 1024. So searching for more info I found https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=208658 where oconnor663 suggested to create /etc/systemd/system.conf.d/nofile.conf with
[Manager]
DefaultLimitNOFILE=65536
So I issued sudo grep -r NOFILE /etc/
/etc/systemd/user.conf:#DefaultLimitNOFILE=
/etc/systemd/system.conf:#DefaultLimitNOFILE=1024:524288
Bingo!
man systemd-user.conf informed me that the default is 1024! So I changed /etc/systemd/user.conf listing
DefaultLimitNOFILE=50000:524288
Let’s see if it fixes it