Hi all,

I am loading data into hive tables by connecting to hiveserver through
thrift api using "load data local inpath ... " query .
Hive server is running as a background process for days . After some 4-5
days hiveserver throws this error :

11/02/11 11:20:02 WARN server.TThreadPoolServer: Transport error occurred
during acceptance of message.
org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: java.net.SocketException:
Too many open files
        at
org.apache.thrift.transport.TServerSocket.acceptImpl(TServerSocket.java:124)
        at
org.apache.thrift.transport.TServerSocket.acceptImpl(TServerSocket.java:35)
        at
org.apache.thrift.transport.TServerTransport.accept(TServerTransport.java:31)
        at
org.apache.thrift.server.TThreadPoolServer.serve(TThreadPoolServer.java:184)
        at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.service.HiveServer.main(HiveServer.java:388)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:156)
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Too many open files
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketAccept(Native Method)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.accept(PlainSocketImpl.java:384)
        at java.net.ServerSocket.implAccept(ServerSocket.java:453)
        at java.net.ServerSocket.accept(ServerSocket.java:421)
        at
org.apache.thrift.transport.TServerSocket.acceptImpl(TServerSocket.java:119)
        ... 9 more

I checked network connections using netstat and it show about 1000 active
network connections, most of them to hadoop datanode . Output is attached as
netstat.out

after i restarted hiveserver network connections falls to about 20 . output
is attached as netstat_after_HS_restart.out

Is this a problem with hive or hadoop configuration ?

Vaibhav Negi

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