@steve: nginx seems to attract the hostile and malpadapted? I've seen more arrogant a**es in this forum than most other places. You guys need to relax; it's just software. No need for you to go nuts like that. It just shows badly on you.

The reason I restore from backup is because I needed that proxy online for development. And, I have used Linux for a while that can be counted in more than months. Do you know what they say about "assume"?

I did Google. I saw that worked for some and not for others. I tried it, it didn't work for me. My file-max setting was already some 200K.

So, let me ask this, why would I need to increase open file limit anyways? This is a low traffic proxy.

@BR: Thanks for not being as bad as steve. I did notice that Fedora does not have an up-to-date package. For now, I will stay with the backup and spin up another virtual machine to see if I can test further.

If anyone has any other ideas than the first 20 Google hits, I'd love to hear of them. Thx.