From 91a5d06c213e1e6e1c8ad792e604a49dc61b9f15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Coca Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 09:17:38 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] added note on os x file limits --- docsite/rst/intro_installation.rst | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docsite/rst/intro_installation.rst b/docsite/rst/intro_installation.rst index 50a2803aad..923422ea13 100644 --- a/docsite/rst/intro_installation.rst +++ b/docsite/rst/intro_installation.rst @@ -49,7 +49,13 @@ Control Machine Requirements Currently Ansible can be run from any machine with Python 2.6 or 2.7 installed (Windows isn't supported for the control machine). This includes Red Hat, Debian, CentOS, OS X, any of the BSDs, and so on. - + +.. note:: + + As of 2.0 ansible uses a few more file handles to manage it's forks, OS X has a very low setting so if you want to use 15 or more forks + you'll need to raise the ulimit, like so `sudo launchctl limit maxfiles 1024 2048`. Or just any time you see a "Too many open files" error. + + .. _managed_node_requirements: Managed Node Requirements