When the elasticsearch instance restarted, how do you check? Did you check using this command cat /proc/<elasticsearch instance pid>/limits ?
Jason On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Vijay Tiwary <vijaykr.tiw...@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 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? > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/2393716f-1571-4b64-9572-9984ceef76b2%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/2393716f-1571-4b64-9572-9984ceef76b2%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAHO4itzKNAa-fmXjrxf0CaL2PLCc26kwszPyKOSRwRuSsXLT2w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.