# Too many open files **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 4, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/too-many-open-files/5777 "2011-11-04T21:07:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alex\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@Alex\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_2)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/too-many-open-files/5777/1 "2011-11-04T21:07:44Z")
Hi Shay after replacing the .war file and restarting the server, I get the following error: [https://gist.github.com/1340424](https://gist.github.com/1340424) I'm using v. 0.18.2 with aws-s3. I never got such error with previous versions. The exception is thrown when the _first_ user accesses the servlet. What's going on? Thanks! Cheers Alex ---
**Author:** ![Huy\_Le](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@Huy\_Le](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Huy_Le)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/too-many-open-files/5777/2 "2011-11-04T21:23:33Z")
Not sure if v. 0.18.2 is using more file descriptor. We configured our with 80,000 file descriptor. It was running fine with 0.17.x. Upgraded to 0.18.2 5 days ago, and just got too open file error today. Just bumped limit to 140,000. Huy On Nov 4, 5:07 pm, Alex [alessandro.ussegliovire...@gmail.com](mailto:alessandro.ussegliovire...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi Shay > > after replacing the .war file and restarting the server, I get the > following error:[Too many open files error when restarting server · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/1340424) > I'm using v. 0.18.2 with aws-s3. I never got such error with previous > versions. The exception is thrown when the _first_ user accesses the > servlet. > What's going on? > > Thanks! > > Cheers > Alex ---
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 3:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/too-many-open-files/5777/3 "2011-11-08T03:45:56Z")
0.18.x should not use more file descriptors than 0.17. Can you tell which file descriptors are being used by the process (lsof -p), or, if anything else changed except for the version bump? On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Huy Le [huyle@leveragingit.com](mailto:huyle@leveragingit.com) wrote: > Not sure if v. 0.18.2 is using more file descriptor. We configured > our with 80,000 file descriptor. It was running fine with 0.17.x. > Upgraded to 0.18.2 5 days ago, and just got too open file error > today. Just bumped limit to 140,000. > > Huy > > On Nov 4, 5:07 pm, Alex [alessandro.ussegliovire...@gmail.com](mailto:alessandro.ussegliovire...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Hi Shay > > > > after replacing the .war file and restarting the server, I get the > > following error:[Too many open files error when restarting server · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/1340424) > > I'm using v. 0.18.2 with aws-s3. I never got such error with previous > > versions. The exception is thrown when the _first_ user accesses the > > servlet. > > What's going on? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Cheers > > Alex ---
**Author:** ![Huy\_Le](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@Huy\_Le](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Huy_Le)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/too-many-open-files/5777/4 "2011-11-08T13:55:58Z")
In our case, only configuration/application change is es version change. However, we do have higher traffic load than we used to. lsof shows almost all of the file descriptors used were on files in ES data directory (nodes/0/indices). Here is outrcluster info: { "active\_primary\_shards": 60, "active\_shards": 180, "cluster\_name": "MyCluster", "initializing\_shards": 0, "number\_of\_data\_nodes": 6, "number\_of\_nodes": 6, "relocating\_shards": 0, "status": "green", "timed\_out": false, "unassigned\_shards": 0 } This is on a cluster with 2 indices and 2 replicas. Huy On Nov 7, 10:45 pm, Shay Banon [kim...@gmail.com](mailto:kim...@gmail.com) wrote: > 0.18.x should not use more file descriptors than 0.17. Can you tell which > file descriptors are being used by the process (lsof -p), or, if anything > else changed except for the version bump? > > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Huy Le [hu...@leveragingit.com](mailto:hu...@leveragingit.com) wrote: > > > Not sure if v. 0.18.2 is using more file descriptor. We configured > > our with 80,000 file descriptor. It was running fine with 0.17.x. > > Upgraded to 0.18.2 5 days ago, and just got too open file error > > today. Just bumped limit to 140,000. > > > Huy > > > On Nov 4, 5:07 pm, Alex [alessandro.ussegliovire...@gmail.com](mailto:alessandro.ussegliovire...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > > Hi Shay > > > > after replacing the .war file and restarting the server, I get the > > > following error:[Too many open files error when restarting server · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/1340424) > > > I'm using v. 0.18.2 with aws-s3. I never got such error with previous > > > versions. The exception is thrown when the _first_ user accesses the > > > servlet. > > > What's going on? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Cheers > > > Alex ---
**Author:** ![Huy\_Le](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@Huy\_Le](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Huy_Le)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/too-many-open-files/5777/5 "2011-11-08T14:01:19Z")
At the time the issue occurred, there were 79501 files in data directory nodes/0/indices/\*. It seems like there were too many segment files got created. Huy On Nov 8, 8:55 am, Huy Le [hu...@leveragingit.com](mailto:hu...@leveragingit.com) wrote: > In our case, only configuration/application change is es version > change. However, we do have higher traffic load than we used to. > lsof shows almost all of the file descriptors used were onfilesin ES > data directory (nodes/0/indices). Here is outrcluster info: > > { > "active\_primary\_shards": 60, > "active\_shards": 180, > "cluster\_name": "MyCluster", > "initializing\_shards": 0, > "number\_of\_data\_nodes": 6, > "number\_of\_nodes": 6, > "relocating\_shards": 0, > "status": "green", > "timed\_out": false, > "unassigned\_shards": 0 > > } > > This is on a cluster with 2 indices and 2 replicas. > > Huy > > On Nov 7, 10:45 pm, Shay Banon [kim...@gmail.com](mailto:kim...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > 0.18.x should not use more file descriptors than 0.17. Can you tell which > > file descriptors are being used by the process (lsof -p), or, if anything > > else changed except for the version bump? > > > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Huy Le [hu...@leveragingit.com](mailto:hu...@leveragingit.com) wrote: > > > > > Not sure if v. 0.18.2 is using more file descriptor. We configured > > > our with 80,000 file descriptor. It was running fine with 0.17.x. > > > Upgraded to 0.18.2 5 days ago, and just gottooopen file error > > > today. Just bumped limit to 140,000. > > > > Huy > > > > On Nov 4, 5:07 pm, Alex [alessandro.ussegliovire...@gmail.com](mailto:alessandro.ussegliovire...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Shay > > > > > after replacing the .war file and restarting the server, I get the > > > > following error:[Too many open files error when restarting server · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/1340424) > > > > I'm using v. 0.18.2 with aws-s3. I never got such error with previous > > > > versions. The exception is thrown when the _first_ user accesses the > > > > servlet. > > > > What's going on? > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > Cheers > > > > Alex ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/too-many-open-files/5777/6 "2017-07-06T03:49:34Z")
Closed on July 6, 2017, 3:49am UTC