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

awongh's answer worked for me

ulimit -n 10480

But only after starting an interactive shell

sudo -i

Outside of the shell I kept getting a permission error on OSX Yosemite