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If I remember properly, a remote shell (usually bash) does get invoked before roslaunch is invoked. On some modern linux systems, particularly Ubuntu, there's a check at the beginning of the default .bashrc that exits if you're running a non-interactive shell. You should look for that and put your ulimit before it.

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