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ASF GitHub Bot commented on KAFKA-2462: --------------------------------------- GitHub user gwenshap opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/164 KAFKA-2462: allow modifying soft limit for open files in Kafka startup script You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/gwenshap/kafka ulimit Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/164.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #164 ---- commit 7a049dafddb362a15498772df64c341d80e52d9b Author: Gwen Shapira <csh...@gmail.com> Date: 2015-08-24T23:21:08Z adding parameter for setting soft ulimit. tested on Linux ---- > allow modifying soft limit for open files in Kafka startup script > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-2462 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2462 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Gwen Shapira > Assignee: Gwen Shapira > > In some systems the hard limit for number of open files is set reasonably > high, but the default soft limit for the user running Kafka is insufficient. > It would be nice if the Kafka startup script could set the soft limit of > number of files for the Kafka process to a user-defined value before starting > Kafka. > Something like: > kafka-server-start --soft-file-limit 10000 config/server.properties -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)