Maybe related to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1992 ?
On Jan 27, 2011, at Thu Jan 27, 1:22 AM, B. Todd Burruss wrote: > i ran out of file handles on the "repairing node" after doing nodetool repair > - strange as i have never had this issue until using 0.7.0 (but i should say > that i have not truly tested 0.7.0 until now.) up'ed the number of file > handles, removed data, restarted nodes, then restarted my test. waited a > little while. i have two keyspaces on the cluster, so i checked the number > of SSTABLES in one of them before "nodetool repair" and i see 36 "data.db" > files, spread over 11 column families. very reasonable.
