saltstack/salt — pull request #3570 by s0undt3ch (2013-02-03 19:19:47+00:00)
Title: Catch `ValueError` when trying to raise the max open files setting. Refs #1991

Under some occasions, the current default of 100000 max open files setting is too high. Properly catch that exception and warn the users about it.
See https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/1991#issuecomment-13025595