RE: HDFS open file limit

2014-01-27 Thread John Lilley
What exception would I expect to get if this limit was exceeded? john From: Harsh J [mailto:ha...@cloudera.com] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 8:12 AM To: Subject: Re: HDFS open file limit Hi John, There is a concurrent connections limit on the DNs that's set to a default of 4k max par

Re: HDFS open file limit

2014-01-27 Thread Harsh J
Hi John, There is a concurrent connections limit on the DNs that's set to a default of 4k max parallel threaded connections for reading or writing blocks. This is also expandable via configuration but usually the default value suffices even for pretty large operations given the replicas help sprea

Re: HDFS open file limit

2014-01-27 Thread sudhakara st
There is no open file limitation for HDFS. The 'Too many open file' limit is for OS file system. Increase *system-wide maximum number of open files, Per-User/Group/Process file descriptor limits.* On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Bertrand Dechoux wrote: > At least for each machine, there is the

Re: HDFS open file limit

2014-01-26 Thread Bertrand Dechoux
At least for each machine, there is the *ulimit *that need to be verified. Regards Bertrand Bertrand Dechoux On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 6:32 PM, John Lilley wrote: > I have an application that wants to open a large set of files in HDFS > simultaneously. Are there hard or practical limits to wh

HDFS open file limit

2014-01-26 Thread John Lilley
I have an application that wants to open a large set of files in HDFS simultaneously. Are there hard or practical limits to what can be opened at once by a single process? By the entire cluster in aggregate? Thanks John