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How to increase open file descriptors limit in MacOS Sierra / Linux

There are times when you want to increase your open file limit in your system
by Jey Geethan | April 08, 2019
How to increase open file descriptors limit in MacOS Sierra / Linux

There are times when you want to increase your open file limit in your system. You can use the following to do so. Here you are setting the soft limit and the hard limit.


# ~/.bash_profile


# change open file descriptors limit
ulimit -n 65536 200000

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