On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Kesten Broughton <[email protected]>wrote:
> "You should make sure to correct the maximum number of open files for the > user that is running Accumulo." > > I have the following in all /etc/security/limits.conf in my accumulo > cluster > > hdfs soft nofile 65536 > hdfs hard nofile 65536 > > However, i see this for all nodes. > WARN : Max files open on 10.0.11.208 is 32768, recommend 65536 > > Should it be a different user or something? > > 'the user that is running Accumulo' > sudo hdfs > hdfs$ bin/accumulo -u root > > so is hdfs or root the accumulo user? > > The user in question here is the one who starts the Accumulo server processes. In production environments this should be a user dedicated to Accumulo. FWIW, I usually name this user "accumulo". How do you start up Accumulo? a service script? running $ACCUMULO_HOME/bin/start-all.sh? something else?
