macOS Catalina maxfiles and maxproc limits

CatalinaMaxFilesProc

Original post:
https://gist.github.com/tombigel/d503800a282fcadbee14b537735d202c

limit.maxfiles.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>Label</key>
      <string>limit.maxfiles</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
      <array>
        <string>launchctl</string>
        <string>limit</string>
        <string>maxfiles</string>
        <string>524288</string>
        <string>524288</string>
      </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
      <true/>
  </dict>
</plist>

limit.maxproc.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>Label</key>
      <string>limit.maxproc</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
      <array>
        <string>launchctl</string>
        <string>limit</string>
        <string>maxproc</string>
        <string>2048</string>
        <string>2500</string>
      </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
      <true/>
  </dict>
</plist>

load.sh

#!/bin/sh

curl -O https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ashiqopu/d63696960ee732c3cac6bb1b1da92bf3/raw/2d1671c81e0713f5a67d6867921050feb9313cac/limit.maxfiles.plist
curl -O https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ashiqopu/d63696960ee732c3cac6bb1b1da92bf3/raw/2d1671c81e0713f5a67d6867921050feb9313cac/limit.maxproc.plist

sudo mv limit.maxfiles.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons
sudo mv limit.maxproc.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons

sudo chown root:wheel /Library/LaunchDaemons/limit.maxfiles.plist
sudo chown root:wheel /Library/LaunchDaemons/limit.maxproc.plist

sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/limit.maxfiles.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/limit.maxproc.plist