WARNING: soft rlimits too low. rlimits set to 4096 processes, 64000 files. Number of processes should be at least 32000 : 0.5 times number of files.

I’ve received this error while starting mongo in shell while installing on

[root@master ~]# mongod --version
db version v3.2.3
git version: b326ba837cf6f49d65c2f85e1b70f6f31ece7937
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013
allocator: tcmalloc
modules: none
build environment:
    distmod: rhel70
    distarch: x86_64
    target_arch: x86_64
[root@master ~]# mongo --version
MongoDB shell version: 3.2.3
CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)

WARNING: soft rlimits too low. rlimits set to 4096 processes, 64000 files. Number of processes should be at least 32000 : 0.5 times number of files.

Solution

vim /etc/security/limits.d/90-nproc.conf

Then put in

mongod     soft    nproc     64000

and

reboot

Tags:

• MongoDB
• shell
• ulimit
• warning