Christian Broberg cbroberg

If you are seeing Mongo soft rlimits warnings in your logs, or a WARNING: soft rlimits too low. Number of files is 256, should be at least 1000 when you login to mongo shell via mongo from the commandline, or any mysterious/unexplained mongo connection errors... follow this how-to exactly and it will resolve the issue for you.

(Source of this how to found at basho/basho_docs#1402)

First file: sudo vi /Library/LaunchDaemons/limit.maxfiles.plist

...containing:

	aws lightsail create-key-pair \
	--key-pair-name 'lightsail_demo' \
	--query 'privateKeyBase64' \
	--output text > 'demo.key'
	chmod 700 "demo.key"