Repair does normally stream lots of small sstables. It's normal to set open fd to unlimited, but a higher limit like 64K would also be reasonable.
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:02 AM, cbert...@libero.it <cbert...@libero.it> wrote: >> For the "too many open files" issue, maybe you could try: ulimit -n 5000 >> && <path to cassandra executable>. > > Ok, thanks for the tip but I get this error running nodetool repair and not > during cassandra execution. > I however wonder if this is normal or not ... in production do you get > similar numbers? Isn't it too much? > > best regards > > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com
