Re: [GENERAL] Bottlenecks with large number of relation segment files

From: KONDO Mitsumasa <kondo(dot)mitsumasa(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Bottlenecks with large number of relation segment files
Date: 2013-08-06 10:19:41
Message-ID: 5200CDBD.2020405@lab.ntt.co.jp
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(2013/08/05 21:23), Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> ... Also, there are global
>> limits to the amount of filehandles that can simultaneously opened on a
>> system.
>
> Yeah. Raising max_files_per_process puts you at serious risk that
> everything else on the box will start falling over for lack of available
> FD slots.
Is it Really? When I use hadoop like NOSQL storage, I set large number of FD.
Actually, Hadoop Wiki is writing following.

http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/TooManyOpenFiles
> Too Many Open Files
>
> You can see this on Linux machines in client-side applications, server code or even in test runs.
> It is caused by per-process limits on the number of files that a single user/process can have open, which was introduced in the 2.6.27 kernel. The default value, 128, was chosen because "that should be enough".
>
> In Hadoop, it isn't.
~
> ulimit -n 8192

Regards,
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Mitsumasa KONDO
NTT Open Source Software Center

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