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.

Last updated on March 1st, 2016 at 03:54 am

I’ve received this error while starting mongo in shell while installing on
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[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)
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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.
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Solution

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vim /etc/security/limits.d/90-nproc.conf
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Then put in
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mongod soft nproc 64000
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and
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reboot
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Tags:

• MongoDB
• shell
• ulimit
• warning