ulimit open files setting fail

[redonkulus]

I have read countless articles on how to solve this issue but none of them seem to work for me.

Specs
10.10.5 MacPro Retina Mid 2012
Processor: 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Here are the settings I have now:

$ cat /etc/sysctl.conf
kern.maxfiles=20480
kern.maxfilesperproc=20480

$ cat /etc/launchd.conf
limit maxfiles 8192 20480
limit maxproc 1000 2000

$ ulimit -n 2048
-bash: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted

I've tried different numbers but nothing seems to work. Any advice or pointer to an article is appreciated.

 

[redonkulus]

Turns out I was able to solve this by adding it to my bash file.