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Type: Improvement
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Resolution: Done
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Priority: Minor - P4
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Affects Version/s: None
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Component/s: manual
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.