On macOS systems

This section explains pre-installation steps on SonarQube Server host for the Developer and Enterprise Editions on macOS systems.

Configuring the host to comply with Elasticsearch

Because SonarQube Server uses an embedded Elasticsearch, make sure that your host configuration complies with the Elasticsearch production mode requirements and File Descriptors configuration.

Configuring the maximum number of open files

Set the file limit values by running the following commands.

sudo sysctl kern.maxfiles=131072

sudo sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc=131072

ulimit -n 131072