so you found the prob?

those numbers for nifi looked good.

thanks

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019, 9:34 AM Mike Thomsen <[email protected]> wrote:

> And.... it was SystemD...
>
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 8:30 AM Mike Thomsen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> When I do lsof -u nifi, it says the nifi user only has 5761 handles
>> associated with it.
>>
>> One warning I saw on StackExchange said that sometimes SystemD subtly
>> messes with this stuff on RHEL.
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 8:14 AM Mike Thomsen <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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