Sometimes MacOS gives you an error like this. I tried to fix that by whatever
Internet told me: made kern.maxfiles and kern.maxfileperproc values bigger,
changed limits in launchctl limit - it did not really help though. Usually the
error went away just because some application stopped doing what it was doing.
Lately it became unbearable: I start
gostatic in a file watching mode and some
file changes triggered execution of an external command (lessc in my case),
which caused too many open files. How many is “too many”, dammit! Anyway, I’ve
spent 10 minutes on that again and here is the post to prevent searching web
again (and maybe it’ll help somebody else as well).
So, solution. I never looked carefully enough at ulimit -n, because it always
said unlimited. It seems like a wishful thinking though, and the actual limit is pretty low. So:
ulimit -S -n 4096
did help!
FYI: I’ve spent some time experimenting and established that maximum open files per 1 process is 249 inclusive.