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add to troubleshooting docs #1282

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Summary of changes
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  • Includes details to troubleshooting docs on how to get past the known file descriptors issue when syncing from a snapshot

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Closes #1252

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To properly manage the Filecoin state tree with RocksDB, Forest requires a custom allocation of file descriptors. Please set the process file descriptor limits to `1048576` to avoid stalling the node.

For MacOS and Linux distributions, this can be done by using the `usize` command. Using this command will set it for the current session. On MacOS, setting the limit too high will default it to a max of
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is this usize or ulimit? on my machine it's ulimit

@noot noot merged commit 453cba1 into main Dec 8, 2021
@noot noot deleted the connor/add-file-limit-troubleshooting-docs branch December 8, 2021 16:58
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failed to import snapshot into forest
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