Increasing number of open files descriptors in elastic search

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1

I am increasing the number of open files descriptors for the root user by
adding the following entry in /etc/sysctl.conf

fs.file-max = 751864

However when I am restarting elastic search as root user then elastic
search is starting with

max_file_descriptors value as 4096

Why the above change is not visible to elastic search?

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When the elasticsearch instance restarted, how do you check? Did you check
using this command cat /proc//limits ?

Jason

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Vijay Tiwary vijaykr.tiwary@gmail.com
wrote:

I am increasing the number of open files descriptors for the root user by
adding the following entry in /etc/sysctl.conf

fs.file-max = 751864

However when I am restarting Elasticsearch as root user then elastic
search is starting with

max_file_descriptors value as 4096

Why the above change is not visible to Elasticsearch?

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Yes. By Using the same command the max open files count is 4096

On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 6:30:02 PM UTC+5:30, Jason Wee wrote:

When the elasticsearch instance restarted, how do you check? Did you check
using this command cat /proc//limits ?

Jason

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Vijay Tiwary <vijaykr...@gmail.com
<javascript:>> wrote:

I am increasing the number of open files descriptors for the root user by
adding the following entry in /etc/sysctl.conf

fs.file-max = 751864

However when I am restarting Elasticsearch as root user then elastic
search is starting with

max_file_descriptors value as 4096

Why the above change is not visible to Elasticsearch?

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