The official recommendation is 100k: http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/install/installRecommendSettings.html
I wonder if there's an advantage to this over unlimited if you're running servers which are dedicated to your Cassandra cluster (which you should be for anything production). On Fri Dec 05 2014 at 2:39:24 PM Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Rafał Furmański <rfurman...@opera.com> > wrote: > >> I see “Too many open files” exception in logs, but I’m sure that my limit >> is now 150k. >> Should I increase it? What’s the reasonable limit of open files for >> cassandra? > > > Why provide any limit? ulimit allows "unlimited"? > > =Rob > >
