ECE Installation and Openfile values

[Rocking_Raphsody]

Though, the right value is set for the open file descriptors, the installer still reports requirements not met.

Checking OS kernel cgroup.memory... PASSED
 - OS setting 'cgroup.memory' should be set to cgroup.memory=nokmem
Checking OS minimum ephemeral port... PASSED
Checking OS max open file descriptors per process... FAILED
  OS setting for max open file descriptors per process should be >= 65536, currently 1024
Checking OS max open file descriptors system-wide... PASSED
 - OS setting for max open file descriptors system-wide should be >= 2708550, currently 2097152
Checking OS file system and Docker storage driver compatibility... PASSED
Checking OS file system storage driver permissions... PASSED

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Errors have caused Elastic Cloud Enterprise installation to fail
Some of the prerequisites failed: [OS max open file descriptors per process], please fix before continuing
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[elasticsearch@ip-10-124-136-26 ~]$ ulimit -a
core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority             (-e) 0
file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals                 (-i) 509707
max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 64
max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                      (-n) 65536
pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8

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Entries in the /etc/security/limits.conf

elasticsearch soft nofile 65536
elasticsearch hard nofile 65536
root soft nofile 65536
root hard nofile 65536

•           soft    nofile          65536
  

•           hard    nofile          65536
  

elasticsearch memlock unlimited

[Julien]

The values mentioned in the snippet do not seem to match ECE documented installation steps so I assume some other steps were not followed and might cause this. I would suggest following the appropriate doc depending on the OS and verifying all the steps to prepare the host

Note ulimit should be run inside a docker container if you want to test so it might give more relevant than running on the server directly:

$ docker run -it busybox sh
/ # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max