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  2. DOCS-1717

describe how to adjust ulimits on OS X systems

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      Hi docs team,

      We have a handy page explaining how to increase ulimits at http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/ulimit/ on Linux but we don't have any corresponding documentation on how to do this on OS X systems.

      There are a few things to think about here:

      • On the one hand, OSX systems don't currently run MongoDB as well as Linux machines, so we don't (yet) want to encourage people to run MongoDB on OSX in production. However,
      • Lots of people inside and outside of 10gen use OSX for interactive development work (e.g. on their apple laptops), and
      • OS X's default ulimit -n setting of 256 is very low, customers sometimes trip over this limit.

      On top of all that, OS X has a rather unusual way of changing ulimits, in contrast to Linux which works in a somewhat more standard manner.

      Would it make sense, then, to add some 'OS X tuning' documentation? If so, let me know, I'm happy to take a shot at writing it.

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            duraid.madina@10gen.com Duraid Madina
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