Thanks Sean. I added the ulimit -n 10240 to /etc/default/riak, restarted riak, but that didn't work.
Fyodor Yarochkin suggested that the bitcask files could be corrupted, but I wasn't sure which bitcask *.data or *.hint file to delete. Any pointers? Here's the /var/log/riak/erlang.log: =ERROR REPORT==== 29-Sep-2011::20:27:42 === ** State machine <0.369.0> terminating ** Last event in was {riak_vnode_req_v1, 941983477185933521498468739836666790012612771840, {fsm,undefined,<0.27704.1>}, {riak_kv_put_req_v1, {<<"nodes">>,<<"screen_name-psych_ic-info">>}, {r_object,<<"nodes">>,<<"screen_name-psych_ic-info">>, [{r_content, {dict,3,16,16,8,80,48, {[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]}, {{[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[], [[<<"content-type">>,97,112,112,108,105,99,97, 116,105,111,110,47,106,115,111,110], [<<"X-Riak-VTag">>,49,90,120,65,84,100,56,99,48, 80,86,99,111,122,71,79,108,90,70,97,53,87]], [],[], [[<<"X-Riak-Last-Modified">>| {1317,353201,695471}]], [],[]}}}, <<"{DELETED DATA}">>}], [{<<2,65,205,48>>,{1,63484572401}}], {dict,1,16,16,8,80,48, {[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]}, {{[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[], [[clean|true]], []}}}, undefined}, 1174401,63484572401, [{returnbody,true}]}} ** When State == active ** Data == {state,941983477185933521498468739836666790012612771840, riak_kv_vnode, {state,941983477185933521498468739836666790012612771840, riak_kv_bitcask_backend, {#Ref<0.0.0.3952>, "/var/lib/riak/bitcask/941983477185933521498468739836666790012612771840"}, {dict,0,16,16,8,80,48, {[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[], [],[],[]}, {{[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[], [],[],[]}}}, false}, undefined,none,60000} ** Reason for termination = ** {{badmatch,{error,emfile}}, [{bitcask_fileops,create_file_loop,3}, {bitcask,put,3}, {riak_kv_bitcask_backend,put,3}, {riak_kv_vnode,perform_put,3}, {riak_kv_vnode,do_put,7}, {riak_kv_vnode,handle_command,3}, {riak_core_vnode,vnode_command,3}, {gen_fsm,handle_msg,7}]} -----Original Message----- From: Sean Cribbs [mailto:s...@basho.com] Sent: Thu 9/29/2011 3:02 PM To: Jim Adler Cc: riak-users@lists.basho.com Subject: Re: Timeout when storing Your environment has too few file handles. Retry starting riak after setting `ulimit -n 1024` in the shell. Also see our wiki page about this issue: http://wiki.basho.com/Open-Files-Limit.html You may need to set this limit specifically for the 'riak' user. Cheers, -- Sean Cribbs <s...@basho.com> Developer Advocate Basho Technologies, Inc. http://www.basho.com/
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