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