Right, and that said, if it isn’t already fixed (reading here it seemed so), while you can use ulimit, there’s an outstanding PR:
With another just opened PR: “Set VERSION to 1.8.0-DEV, move 1.7 NEWS to HISTORY” I’m not sure if the above one made it in, since it seems very harmless and only potentially helpful, I would like to see it in, even if it would only make buggy software less of an issue. Possibly it will come in 1.7.x? I’m not sure were they draw the line at adding stuff in such a release.