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paul cannon commented on CASSANDRA-3206: ---------------------------------------- I concur. I'll go with 100k unless someone has a good argument for having it be higher. > increase file descriptor limit in deb, rpm packages > --------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-3206 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3206 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Packaging > Reporter: Jonathan Ellis > Assignee: paul cannon > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 0.8.6 > > > We can use a lot of file descriptors (one per socket, 5? per sstable). > People hit this regularly on the user list and it will get worse with Leveled > compaction, which limits sstable size to a relatively low size (currently > 5MB). -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira