We've had the same max-open-files setting for our ES clusters for a while (65k) and our nodes are pretty large (i3.2xl's w/ ~1-1.5TB of data on each one). We've never had a problem with file handles on our older ES 2.4 cluster. On our new ES 6.2.3 cluster though, we noticed that some nodes were cra…

Open File Handles leaking on 6.2.3 nodes..?

diranged (Diranged) April 21, 2018, 11:17pm 3

Thanks for that - we'll do an upgrade and monitor from there!

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