"max user processes" limit is not set correctly in terminal

[OrenMustaki]

Hi

When I'm opening terminal in code server , CTRL+SHIFT+~, the value of "max user processes" ( ulimit -u ) is set to 127582.
From the same terminal, if I open a new shell, or "ssh localhost", I get a correct value of 1042.
The value I get if open a terminal by other means is 1024 which is correct and set using /etc/limit.d/.
I checked it on a few code-server and the behavior is the same

What am I missing ?

Oren

[jsjoeio]

Hmm... @code-asher any ideas? Is this something we're manually setting somewhere?

[jsjoeio]

Hmm...strange! Well thanks for trying. Unfortunately, since we cannot successfully reproduce I'm not sure there is much we can do to help. I'm sorry about that

[code-asher]

Inherited from the invoking shell makes sense to me. I imagine this could depend on how you are starting code-server; is it systemd or something? Did you start Visual Studio Code Server the same way?

[OrenMustaki]

Yes, im running it with systemd.
With the Visual Studio Code im using Remote SSH extension to connect .
Ill try to look into the systemd service. it might have something to do with it.

[OrenMustaki]

that was it !!!
Since daemons started by systemd don't employ pam login session, the limits can be set only in the service unit file.
I had to add LimitNPROC=XXX to the code-server systemd file under [Service]

Thanks

Oren

[jsjoeio]

@code-asher does it again.

[jsjoeio]

Since daemons started by systemd don't employ pam login session, the limits can be set only in the service unit file.
I had to add LimitNPROC=XXX to the code-server systemd file under [Service]

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Solved by: @code-asher