Re: "Too many open files" error, which gets resolved after some time

[Steve Loughran]

Raghu Angadi wrote:

Is this before 0.20.0? Assuming you have closed these streams, it is mostly https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4346

It is the JDK internal implementation that depends on GC to free up its cache of selectors. HADOOP-4346 avoids this by using hadoop's own cache.

yes, and it's that change that led to my stack traces :(

http://jira.smartfrog.org/jira/browse/SFOS-1208