From e025d2dce37a5209522a8bcdaa558fa0de4c0a9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eli Ribble <eli@gleipnir.technology>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2025 15:03:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Increase open file limits for building the system

Without this I was hitting issues when building the authentik flake
which apparently is quite large and complex.
---
 modules/system/base.nix | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/modules/system/base.nix b/modules/system/base.nix
index d5be555..e9b1ac2 100644
--- a/modules/system/base.nix
+++ b/modules/system/base.nix
@@ -17,7 +17,16 @@
 	];
 	i18n.defaultLocale = "en_US.UTF-8";
 	networking.useNetworkd = true;
-	nix.settings.experimental-features = [ "nix-command" "flakes" ];
+	nix.settings = {
+		download-buffer-size = 524288000;
+		experimental-features = [ "nix-command" "flakes" ];
+	};
+	security.pam.loginLimits = [{
+		domain = "*";
+		type = "soft";
+		item = "nofile";
+		value = "8192";
+	}];
 	services.swapspace.enable = true;
 	systemd.network = {
 		enable = true;