Re: Newbie: error=24, Too many open files

2008-11-23 Thread Amareshwari Sriramadasu
tim robertson wrote: Hi all, I am running MR which is scanning 130M records and then trying to group them into around 64,000 files. The Map does the grouping of the record by determining the key, and then I use a MultipleTextOutputFormat to write the file based on the key: @Override

Re: Newbie: error=24, Too many open files

2008-11-23 Thread Jeremy Chow
There are a file number limitation each process can open in unix/linux. The default number in linux is 1024, you can use ulimit -n number to custom this limitation and ulimit -n to show this limitation. Regards, Jeremy -- My research interests are distributed systems, parallel computing and

Re: Newbie: error=24, Too many open files

2008-11-23 Thread tim robertson
Thank you Jeremy I am on Mac (10.5.5) and it is 256 by default. I will change this and rerun before running on the cluster. Thanks again Tim On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Jeremy Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a file number limitation each process can open in unix/linux. The