I have changed it a bit.

I have 10 brokers and 20k topics with 1 partition each. 

I looked at the kaka’s logs dir and I only have 3318 files.

I’m doing some tests to see how many topics/partitions I can have, but it is 
throwing too many files once it hits 15k topics..

Any thoughts?



> On Jul 29, 2016, at 10:33 PM, Gwen Shapira <g...@confluent.io> wrote:
> 
> woah, it looks like you have 15,000 replicas per broker?
> 
> You can go into the directory you configured for kafka's log.dir and
> see how many files you have there. Depending on your segment size and
> retention policy, you could have hundreds of files per partition
> there...
> 
> Make sure you have at least that many file handles and then also add
> handles for the client connections.
> 
> 1 million file handles sound like a lot, but you are running lots of
> partitions per broker...
> 
> We normally don't see more than maybe 4000 per broker and most
> clusters have a lot fewer, so consider adding brokers and spreading
> partitions around a bit.
> 
> Gwen
> 
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Kessiler Rodrigues
> <kessi...@callinize.com> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>> 
>> I have been experiencing some issues on kafka, where its throwing too many 
>> open files.
>> 
>> I have around of 6k topics and 5 partitions each.
>> 
>> My cluster was made with 6 brokers. All of them are running Ubuntu 16 and 
>> the file limits settings are:
>> 
>> `cat  /proc/sys/fs/file-max`
>> 2000000
>> 
>> `ulimit -n`
>> 1000000
>> 
>> Anyone has experienced it before?

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