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Increasing the maxfiles limit on OSX:

sudo vi /Library/LaunchDaemons/limit.maxfiles.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>Label</key>
      <string>limit.maxfiles</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
      <array>
        <string>launchctl</string>
        <string>limit</string>
        <string>maxfiles</string>
        <string>524288</string>
        <string>524288</string>
      </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
      <true/>
    <key>ServiceIPC</key>
      <false/>
  </dict>
</plist>

sudo chown root:wheel /Library/LaunchDaemons/limit.maxfiles.plist sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/limit.maxfiles.plist sudo launchctl limit

RHEL: /etc/security/limits.conf

  • soft nofile 65536
  • hard nofile 2000000