try some alternate, hard numbers when resetting open file limits on OS X

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Paul Davis 2014-12-10 15:27:22 -05:00
parent 83e3d7c274
commit b91c7836de

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@ -218,7 +218,30 @@ lotsa_files_please ()
if (setrlimit (RLIMIT_NOFILE, &rl) != 0) {
if (rl.rlim_cur == RLIM_INFINITY) {
#if __APPLE__
/* For some reason, Apple doesn't do this the
* same way as Linux, and asking for
* RLIM_INFINITY even though that is
* rl.rlim_cur doesn't work.
*
* So try some actual large numbers in the hope
* that one of them will work.
*/
rl.rlim_cur = 10000;
if (setrlimit (RLIMIT_NOFILE, &rl) != 0) {
rl.rlim_cur = 4096;
if (setrlimit (RLIMIT_NOFILE, &rl) != 0) {
rl.rlim_cur = 1000;
if (setrlimit (RLIMIT_NOFILE, &rl) != 0) {
error << _("Could not set system open files limit to a reasonable value. Be careful!") << endmsg;
}
}
}
info << string_compose ("Configured system open file limit to %1", rl.rlim_cur) << endmsg;
#else
error << _("Could not set system open files limit to \"unlimited\"") << endmsg;
#endif
} else {
error << string_compose (_("Could not set system open files limit to %1"), rl.rlim_cur) << endmsg;
}