Jignesh, You need to use OSX's launchctl to make permanent changes to your limit types. By nature, ulimit's changes are not persistent.
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Jignesh Patel <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Dough. > > J-D the link you forwarded is not of much use for me. It doesn't work for > the Lion OSX. > By using ulimit -n I am able to set the value to 1024 but at the end if I > restart the machine it goes back to original 256. Don't know how to make > this change permanent > > -Jignesh > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Doug Meil > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Jignesh, for an example of the error that JD is citing (and other common >> errors) see the Troubleshooting chapter. >> >> http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#trouble >> >> >> >> >> >> On 10/17/11 2:43 PM, "Jean-Daniel Cryans" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >It always depends on the scope of your test :) >> > >> >For me the defaults are not a problem, but if all of a sudden you decide >> >to >> >create a couple of hundreds of regions, then you will run into too many >> >open >> >files. >> > >> >J-D >> > >> >On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Jignesh Patel >> ><[email protected]>wrote: >> > >> >> J-D as Harsh said in test it will work without changing anything even >> >>with >> >> the limit open files of 256. Is that correct? >> >> >> >> _jginesh >> >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans < >> [email protected] >> >> >wrote: >> >> >> >> > That's usually the first problem a user will hit, so we're very >> >>up-front. >> >> > >> >> > J-D >> >> > >> >> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Jignesh Patel >> >><[email protected] >> >> > >wrote: >> >> > >> >> > > Harsh, >> >> > > As you understand from some other post we have exchanged. I am at >> >>very >> >> > > early >> >> > > stage of evaluating hadoop,base. We will start the development in >> >>next >> >> > > month >> >> > > or so. So production is not in question at this time. >> >> > > >> >> > > But wondering if the system should run in testing then why hbase >> >>book >> >> > > section 2.2.4 asks to set the limit at initial stage. Any idea? >> >> > > >> >> > > http://hbase.apache.org/book/os.html >> >> > > >> >> > > -Jignesh >> >> > > >> >> > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Harsh J <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > > >> >> > > > Jignesh, >> >> > > > >> >> > > > Curious if you are gonna run HBase on production over OSX. >> >>Otherwise, >> >> > > > the default limits should be good enough for testing, and HBase >> >>also >> >> > > > seems to set its own -n opt before it begins. >> >> > > > >> >> > > > But anyways, if you are looking to set things permanently, and >> >>using >> >> > > > ulimit is not cutting it for you, checkout launchctl: >> >> > > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/Ma >> >>nPages/man1/launchctl.1.html >> >> > > > [See the "limit" expansions] >> >> > > > >> >> > > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Jignesh Patel < >> >> > [email protected] >> >> > > > >> >> > > > wrote: >> >> > > > > My machine shows as follows: >> >> > > > > >> >> > > > > Jignesh-MacBookPro:~ hadoop-user$ sysctl -a | grep maxproc >> >> > > > > kern.maxproc = 1064 >> >> > > > > kern.maxprocperuid = 709 >> >> > > > > kern.maxproc: 1064 >> >> > > > > kern.maxprocperuid: 709 >> >> > > > > >> >> > > > > >> >> > > > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Jignesh Patel < >> >> > > [email protected] >> >> > > > >wrote: >> >> > > > > >> >> > > > >> While setting Hbase there is a article to setup limit for the >> >> file. >> >> > > > However >> >> > > > >> I didn't find any appropriate command to setup same in Mac. >> >> > > > >> >> >> > > > >> Please let me know how to setup max file size permanently. >> >> > > > >> >> >> > > > >> -Jignesh >> >> > > > >> >> >> > > > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > > -- >> >> > > > Harsh J >> >> > > > >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> >> >> > -- Harsh J
