How to increase Neo4j’s maximum file open limit (ulimit) in Ubuntu?

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What you are doing will not work for root user. Maybe you are running your services as root and hence you don’t get to see the change.

To increase the ulimit for root user you should replace the * by root. * does not apply for root user. Rest is the same as you did. I will re-quote it here.

Add the following lines to the file: /etc/security/limits.conf

root soft  nofile 40000

root hard  nofile 40000

And then add following line in the file: /etc/pam.d/common-session

session required pam_limits.so

This will update the ulimit for root user. As mentioned in comments, you may don’t even have to reboot to see the change.

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