MongoDB "soft rlimits too low" on FreeBSD
<p>When opening up a mongo shell I noticed a message that says:</p>

<pre><code>Server has startup warnings:
2016-09-06T12:07:03.001-0400 I CONTROL  [initandlisten]
2016-09-06T12:07:03.001-0400 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] ** WARNING: soft rlimits too low. 
rlimits set to 12186 processes, 234972 files.
Number of processes should be at least 117486 : 0.5 times number of files.
</code></pre>

<p>I have looked for solutions to this but all I've found is that <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16621763/mongod-mac-os-x-rlimits-warning">you can ignore this message if it's a development sever</a>.</p>

<p>But the problem is that this message is <strong>not</strong> on a development server and it appearing on my production system. Is this anything I should be worried about or can I ignore this warning message?</p>

<p>I'm using MongoDB shell version: 3.2.9 on FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p7</p>