That’s what’s strange. I have double checked the tor logs and the only warning that appears is the “tor cannot help you if you use it wrong” warning; that’s the only one that appears.
I did some research, and according to
https://serverfault.com/questions/145907/does-mac-os-x-throttle-the-rate-of-socket-creation, Mac os does have a maximum amount of network connections it does allow at once.
To find mine out, I tried running this in terminal
Launchctl limit maxfiles
The return was this:
maxfiles 256 unlimited.
I tried attaching a photo of the output but got a message back saying it was held because it was too big (the file was about 6mb).
I wonder if this would mean mac os only allows 256 connections at once?
You do not need to limit the number of connections.How could I modify my torrc file to not go over the max allowed connections by mac os and still be a useable relay?