NodeJS error “EMFILE, too many open files” on Mac OS

Question

For sometime I am having the following error:

Error: EMFILE, too many open files  \'/Users/blagus/Gallery/Websites/Nicsware/Pills/resources/core/auth.node.js         


        

Answer 1

You can solve this problem by increasing the maxfiles limit:

launchctl limit maxfiles 16384 16384 && ulimit -n 16384