Thanks for reporting back. Piotrek
> On 20 Feb 2020, at 21:29, John Smith <java.dev....@gmail.com> wrote: > > I got this response on Stack: > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60326869/what-does-kafka-consumer-too-many-open-files-mean/60327741#60327741 > > <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60326869/what-does-kafka-consumer-too-many-open-files-mean/60327741#60327741> > On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 13:58, John Smith <java.dev....@gmail.com > <mailto:java.dev....@gmail.com>> wrote: > Ok I have 9 jobs running over 3 nodes. Most jobs are set to 1 parallelism, > worst case 2. So let's assume maximum parallelism would be 18. > > I will try increase the ulimit and hopefully, we wont see it... > > On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 04:56, Piotr Nowojski <pi...@ververica.com > <mailto:pi...@ververica.com>> wrote: > But it could be Kafka’s client issue on the Flink side (as the stack trace is > suggesting). You can just try to increase limit of opened files for Flink, or > try to identify who is opening all of those files and limit it somehow - if > it’s Kafka client indeed, maybe it can be configured to use less connections > (that’s why I suggested to search for this), or just decreasing parallelism > of the job. > > Piotrek > >> On 19 Feb 2020, at 22:34, John Smith <java.dev....@gmail.com >> <mailto:java.dev....@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> I think so also. But I was wondering if this was Consumer or actual Kafka >> Broker. But this error displayed on the flink task node where the task was >> running. The brokers looked fine at the time. >> I have about a dozen topics which all are single partition except one which >> is 18. So I really doubt the broker machines ran out of files. >> >> On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 05:21, Piotr Nowojski <pi...@ververica.com >> <mailto:pi...@ververica.com>> wrote: >> Hey, sorry but I know very little about the KafkaConsumer. I hope that >> someone else might know more. >> >> However, did you try to google this issue? It doesn’t sound like Flink >> specific problem, but like a general Kafka issue. Also a solution might be >> just as simple as bumping the limit of opened files on the unix system >> (ulimit command if I remember correctly?) >> >> Piotrek >> >>> On 14 Feb 2020, at 23:35, John Smith <java.dev....@gmail.com >>> <mailto:java.dev....@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Piotr, any thoughts on this? >>> >>> On Wed., Feb. 12, 2020, 3:29 a.m. Kostas Kloudas, <kklou...@apache.org >>> <mailto:kklou...@apache.org>> wrote: >>> Hi John, >>> >>> As you suggested, I would also lean towards increasing the number of >>> allowed open handles, but >>> for recommendation on best practices, I am cc'ing Piotr who may be >>> more familiar with the Kafka consumer. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Kostas >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 9:43 PM John Smith <java.dev....@gmail.com >>> <mailto:java.dev....@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> > >>> > Just wondering is this on the client side in the flink Job? I rebooted >>> > the task and the job deployed correctly on another node. >>> > >>> > Is there a specific ulimit that we should set for flink tasks nodes? >>> > >>> > org.apache.kafka.common.KafkaException: Failed to construct kafka consumer >>> > at >>> > org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.<init>(KafkaConsumer.java:799) >>> > at >>> > org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.<init>(KafkaConsumer.java:650) >>> > at >>> > org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.<init>(KafkaConsumer.java:630) >>> > at >>> > org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.internal.KafkaPartitionDiscoverer.initializeConnections(KafkaPartitionDiscoverer.java:58) >>> > at >>> > org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.internals.AbstractPartitionDiscoverer.open(AbstractPartitionDiscoverer.java:94) >>> > at >>> > org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.FlinkKafkaConsumerBase.open(FlinkKafkaConsumerBase.java:504) >>> > at >>> > org.apache.flink.api.common.functions.util.FunctionUtils.openFunction(FunctionUtils.java:36) >>> > at >>> > org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractUdfStreamOperator.open(AbstractUdfStreamOperator.java:102) >>> > at >>> > org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.openAllOperators(StreamTask.java:424) >>> > at >>> > org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.invoke(StreamTask.java:290) >>> > at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:711) >>> > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) >>> > Caused by: org.apache.kafka.common.KafkaException: java.io.IOException: >>> > Too many open files >>> > at org.apache.kafka.common.network.Selector.<init>(Selector.java:154) >>> > at org.apache.kafka.common.network.Selector.<init>(Selector.java:188) >>> > at org.apache.kafka.common.network.Selector.<init>(Selector.java:192) >>> > at >>> > org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.<init>(KafkaConsumer.java:722) >>> > ... 11 more >>> > Caused by: java.io.IOException: Too many open files >>> > at sun.nio.ch.IOUtil.makePipe(Native Method) >>> > at sun.nio.ch.EPollSelectorImpl.<init>(EPollSelectorImpl.java:65) >>> > at sun.nio.ch >>> > <http://sun.nio.ch/>.EPollSelectorProvider.openSelector(EPollSelectorProvider.java:36) >>> > at java.nio.channels.Selector.open(Selector.java:227) >>> > at org.apache.kafka.common.network.Selector.<init>(Selector.java:152) >>> > ... 14 more >> >