About 5600-5700 starting fresh. Got to about 6500-6800 before hitting the
ceiling.

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 7:30 AM Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote:

> mike
>
> lsof -p <pid>
>
> with the pid of the actual nifi process is probably better to look at for
> nifi resource handling observation.  what is that count.  yes the jars and
> such will all be loaded.  you can expect a few thousand off that.   then
> there are sockets and content and prov and flowfile....which adds a bit
> more.
>
> you should be able view the lsof input and get a pretty good idea of any
> unexpected file handles.
>
> thanks
>
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2019, 7:00 AM Mike Thomsen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I know you can increase the file handle limit in
>> /etc/security/limits.conf, but we're having a really weird issue where a
>> CentOS 7.5 box can handle a massive record set just fine and another
>> running CentOS 7.6 cannot.
>>
>> When I run *lsof | wc -l* on the 7.6 box after NiFi has been running for
>> a while, it prints out hundreds of thousands to a million as the value.
>> Every jar, class file, etc. that is part of the work folder is listed as an
>> open file and the content report oddly enough has maybe 10k-15k files at
>> the most during the ingestion of the largest pieces. So a limit of say 500k
>> open file handles feels like it should be **plenty**.
>>
>> There's a known bug in some releases of CentOS that causes PAM to kill a
>> session if the file handle limit is higher than 1M or unlimited.
>>
>> Anyone have suggestions on what might be happening here?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mike
>>
>

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