[HBASE-2100] [EC2] Adjust fs.file-max

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.20.3, 0.90.0
• Assignee: Andrew Kyle Purtell
• Reporter: Andrew Kyle Purtell
• Created: 09/Jan/10 02:21
• Updated: 12/Oct/12 06:14
• Resolved: 09/Jan/10 03:03

Description

From Robert Gibbon up on hbase-user@:

Maybe you are running Red Hat? Just changing limits.conf I think won't
work because RH has a maximum total open files across the whole system,
which is 4096 by default, unless you do something like this too

echo "32768" > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
service network restart

To make it permanent edit /etc/sysctl.conf to include the line:
fs.file-max = 32768

Update the remote init script appropriately.