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How to change default ulimit values in Mac OS X 10.6?

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Mar 15, 202662220 views
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Mac OS X limits number of processes to 266 and open files to 256. Sometimes this is problem; 256 open files and 266 processes aren't that much. How it's possible to change default ulimit values in Mac OS X 10.6.7? (Hopefully there's no difference between 10.6.7 and other Snow Leopard releases.) Rel…

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launchctl has control over that now. You can do a to set the soft and hard limits for maximum files open. For more information see the 'limit' section of: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/launchctl…

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