# unlimited

**Repository Path**: mirrors_feross/unlimited

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: unlimited
- **Description**: Upgrade the maximum file descriptor number ('nofile') that can be opened by this process
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-08
- **Last Updated**: 2026-05-23

## Categories & Tags

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**Tags**: None

## README

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### Upgrade the maximum file descriptor number (`'nofile'`) that can be opened by this process

## install

```
npm install unlimited
```

## usage

To attempt to upgrade the maximum file descriptor number that can be opened by this process
to effectively unlimited (`65536`):

```js
var unlimited = require('unlimited')
unlimited()
```

Or specify a specific `'nofile'` number to use:

```js
unlimited(10000)
```

If the current user's permissions or the system's `'hard'` limit do not allow the maximum
file descriptor number to be increased, this function will do nothing (no-op).

For best results, start your node process as `root`, run `unlimited()`, then downgrade
the user permissions with the [`downgrade`](https://github.com/feross/downgrade) package.

On non-posix platforms (e.g. Windows), this module does nothing.

## license

MIT. Copyright (c) [Feross Aboukhadijeh](http://feross.org).