This is not an absolute rule/number. It depends on your Kafka usage and your existing limits. SPM <http://sematext.com/spm/> will show you the number of open files Kafka is using, as will a tool like 'lsof'.
Otis -- Monitoring * Alerting * Anomaly Detection * Centralized Log Management Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/ On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Sa Li <sal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, all > > I read the comments from > http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-multi-node-storm-cluster/, > Michael mentioned to increase the maximum number of open file handles for > the user kafka to 98,304 (change kafka to whatever user you are running the > Kafka daemons with – this can be your own user account, of course) you must > add the following line to /etc/security/limits.conf: > > kafka - nofile 98304 > > I am installing the latest version of kafka, do I need to do the same thing > above? > > thanks > -- > > Alec Li >
