[CASSANDRA-14399] unable to start cassandra in version 3.11.21 and getting eror too many files

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Fix Version/s: 3.11.2
• Component/s: Local/Compaction
• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: chinta kiran
• Created: 18/Apr/18 23:16
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:29
• Resolved: 26/Apr/18 04:06

Description

unable to start Cassandra on three node cluster and getting errors in error log as Too Many files open. Getting the error as ERROR [SSTableBatchOpen:1] 2018-04-18 17:57:16,617 JVMStabilityInspector.java:162 - JVM state determined to be unstable.  Exiting forcefully due to:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /fs2/cassandra/data/system_auth/role_permissions-3afbe79f219431a7add7f5ab90d8ec9c/mc-38-big-CompressionInfo.db (Too many open files)