diff --git a/scripts/release/README.md b/scripts/release/README.md
index acc4530..04ee5a8 100644
--- a/scripts/release/README.md
+++ b/scripts/release/README.md
@@ -419,6 +419,11 @@ checks. Each helper keeps its fixed CPU, memory, process and privilege limits.
 These operator deadlines do not change student execution budgets. An expired or
 failed query keeps admission closed.
 
+The broker helper has a 64 MiB per-file ceiling for Erlang JIT mappings.
+[OTP 27.3.4](https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/OTP-27.3.4/erts/emulator/beam/jit/beam_jit_main.cpp)
+starts with a 32 MiB JIT block. Broker JSON output remains limited to 32 KiB; other
+operator helpers keep the 16 MiB file ceiling.
+
 ## Observe resources and queues
 
 `python3.13 -m scripts.release.node_observation` uses a finite read-only Root cap0,
diff --git a/scripts/release/operator_units.py b/scripts/release/operator_units.py
index f20afcb..0e3f049 100644
--- a/scripts/release/operator_units.py
+++ b/scripts/release/operator_units.py
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ PROFILES = {
 }
 
 
+# OTP 27 reserves a 32 MiB dual-mapped JIT block before serving CLI queries.
+FILE_LIMIT_MIB = {"broker-health": 64}
+
+
 def guarded(name: str) -> None:
     _, uid, memory, pids, cpu, _ = PROFILES[name]
     if (
@@ -58,7 +62,7 @@ def guarded(name: str) -> None:
             raise DeliveryError("operator helper/node budgets differ")
     for key, maximum in (
         (resource.RLIMIT_CORE, 0),
-        (resource.RLIMIT_FSIZE, 16 * 1024**2),
+        (resource.RLIMIT_FSIZE, FILE_LIMIT_MIB.get(name, 16) * 1024**2),
         (resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE, 256),
         (resource.RLIMIT_STACK, 16 * 1024**2),
     ):
@@ -133,7 +137,7 @@ def run(
         "TasksMax": str(pids),
         "CPUQuota": str(cpu) + "%",
         "LimitCORE": "0",
-        "LimitFSIZE": "16M",
+        "LimitFSIZE": str(FILE_LIMIT_MIB.get(name, 16)) + "M",
         "LimitNOFILE": "256",
         "LimitSTACK": "16M",
         "RuntimeMaxSec": str(seconds),