node-posix setrlimit crashes, EINVAL - Invalid argument

Question

The following coed gives me an EINVAL error and Node crashes:

var posix = require('posix');
console.log(posix.getrlimit('nofile'));
posix.setrlimit('nofile', {soft: 10000});


ERROR:

/var/myfil/index.js:19
posix.setrlimit('nofile', {soft: 10000});
      ^
Error: EINVAL, Invalid argument
    at Object.<anonymous> (/var/myfile/index.js:19:7)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)

What is the problem? It's exactly like the docs.

Answer 1

That happens if you try to set a soft limit that's higher than the hard limit.

Try setting them both:

posix.setrlimit('nofile', { soft: 10000, hard: 10000 });