File Handles

Asking stupid questions and googling for them is fun some times…

Today I was asking myself if one could rise the file limit for a running MariaDB mysqld process online without restarting the database instance?

And I found an answer on serverfault: Set max file limit on a running process:

PID=$(pidof mysqld)

grep -e 'Max open files' -e Limit /proc/${PID}/limits 
Limit                     Soft Limit           Hard Limit           Units     
Max open files            1024                 4096 …

Hello all, on some Linux systems I get the following warning during my MySQL database start-up:

[Warning] Buffered warning: Could not increase number of max_open_files to more than 1024 (request: 8192)
[Warning] Buffered warning: Changed limits: max_connections: 214 (requested 505)
[Warning] Buffered warning: Changed limits: table_cache: 400 (requested 512)

What does it mean and is that something I should care about?