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Jared Biel updated CASSANDRA-12432:
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Description:
While using Cassandra 2.2.7 (installed from official package) on Ubuntu 14.04 I
noticed a warning on startup:
{noformat}
WARN [main] 2016-08-10 21:53:53,219 SigarLibrary.java:174 - Cassandra server
running in degraded mode. Is swap disabled? : true, Address space adequate? :
true, nofile limit adequate? : true, nproc limit adequate? : false
{noformat}
I set about researching how that value is set and how to increase it. I found
the [Datastax documentation on recommended
settings|http://docs.datastax.com/en/landing_page/doc/landing_page/recommendedSettingsLinux.html]
and tried to increase the nproc limits according to that doc to no avail. I
eventually found a [stackoverflow
post|http://superuser.com/questions/454465/make-ulimits-work-with-start-stop-daemon]
that states that start-stop-daemon (which the C* init script uses)
doesn't/can't use the values specified in the limits.conf files.
I solved this by adding a {{ulimit -p 32768}} entry to the init script below
the other two ulimit commands. Note that the flag is "-p" for dash (default
/bin/sh on Ubuntu), but the flag is "-u" on bash. As Debian has had [dash as
default|https://wiki.debian.org/Shell] since squeeze (2011-02-06), this should
be safe on most Debian based distros.
was:
While using Cassandra 2.2.7 (installed from official package) on Ubuntu 14.04 I
noticed a warning on startup:
{noformat}
WARN [main] 2016-08-10 21:53:53,219 SigarLibrary.java:174 - Cassandra server
running in degraded mode. Is swap disabled? : true, Address space adequate? :
true, nofile limit adequate? : true, nproc limit adequate? : false
{noformat}
I set about researching how that value is set and how to increase it. I found
the [Datastax documentation on recommended
settings|http://docs.datastax.com/en/landing_page/doc/landing_page/recommendedSettingsLinux.html]
and tried to increase the nproc limits according to that doc to no avail. I
eventually found a [stackoverflow
post|http://superuser.com/questions/454465/make-ulimits-work-with-start-stop-daemon]
that states that start-stop-daemon (which the C* init script uses)
doesn't/can't use the values specified in the limits.conf files.
I solved this by adding a {{ulimit -p 32768}} entry to the init script below
the other two ulimit commands. Note the the flag is "-p" for dash (default
/bin/sh on Ubuntu), but the flag is "-u" on bash. As Debian has had [dash as
default|https://wiki.debian.org/Shell] since squeeze (2011-02-06), this should
be safe on most Debian based distros.
> Set ulimit for nproc in debian init script
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-12432
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12432
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
>Reporter: Jared Biel
>Priority: Minor
>
> While using Cassandra 2.2.7 (installed from official package) on Ubuntu 14.04
> I noticed a warning on startup:
> {noformat}
> WARN [main] 2016-08-10 21:53:53,219 SigarLibrary.java:174 - Cassandra server
> running in degraded mode. Is swap disabled? : true, Address space adequate?
> : true, nofile limit adequate? : true, nproc limit adequate? : false
> {noformat}
> I set about researching how that value is set and how to increase it. I found
> the [Datastax documentation on recommended
> settings|http://docs.datastax.com/en/landing_page/doc/landing_page/recommendedSettingsLinux.html]
> and tried to increase the nproc limits according to that doc to no avail. I
> eventually found a [stackoverflow
> post|http://superuser.com/questions/454465/make-ulimits-work-with-start-stop-daemon]
> that states that start-stop-daemon (which the C* init script uses)
> doesn't/can't use the values specified in the limits.conf files.
> I solved this by adding a {{ulimit -p 32768}} entry to the init script below
> the other two ulimit commands. Note that the flag is "-p" for dash (default
> /bin/sh on Ubuntu), but the flag is "-u" on bash. As Debian has had [dash as
> default|https://wiki.debian.org/Shell] since squeeze (2011-02-06), this
> should be safe on most Debian based distros.
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