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Andrew Purtell updated HBASE-2100: ---------------------------------- Description: >From Robert Gibbon up on hbase-user@: {quote} Maybe you are running Red Hat? Just changing limits.conf I think won't work because RH has a maximum total open files across the whole system, which is 4096 by default, unless you do something like this too echo "32768" > /proc/sys/fs/file-max service network restart To make it permanent edit /etc/sysctl.conf to include the line: fs.file-max = 32768 {quote} Update the remote init script appropriately. Priority: Minor (was: Major) Fix Version/s: 0.21.0 0.20.3 > [EC2] Adjust fs.file-max > ------------------------ > > Key: HBASE-2100 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2100 > Project: Hadoop HBase > Issue Type: Sub-task > Reporter: Andrew Purtell > Assignee: Andrew Purtell > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 0.20.3, 0.21.0 > > > From Robert Gibbon up on hbase-user@: > {quote} > Maybe you are running Red Hat? Just changing limits.conf I think won't > work because RH has a maximum total open files across the whole system, > which is 4096 by default, unless you do something like this too > echo "32768" > /proc/sys/fs/file-max > service network restart > To make it permanent edit /etc/sysctl.conf to include the line: > fs.file-max = 32768 > {quote} > Update the remote init script appropriately. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.