Mongo Server Startup Warnings

Question

$ ./bin/mongo 
MongoDB shell version: 2.6.1
connecting to: test
Server has startup warnings: 
2014-08-09T15:26:23.251-0400 [initandlisten] 
2014-08-09T15:26:23.251-0400 [initandlisten] ** WARNING: soft rlimits too low. Number of files is 256, should be at least 1000

Just want to fix the errors

Answer 1

A simple way to fix this is setting the limit just before starting mongod with this:

ulimit -n 1024 && mongod

Or this:

launchctl limit maxfiles 1024 1024

Pls read full answer here .

Answer 2

Similar problem was addressed in MongoDb 3.0 manual. Please check the below link

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/ulimit/