June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
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If you installed Elasticsearch using a DEB/RPM package, this setting is configured automatically. This configuration only applies to Linux and Mac OS. In UNIX operating system, everything is a file including a network connection. A file descriptor is nothing but a handler to the file assigned by the operating system. Once a file is opened, a file descriptor, which is an integer, is assigned to the file. As you index documents, under the covers they are written to Apache Lucene segments. Apache Lucene uses a lot of files to operate. Also, Elasticsearch uses a lot of file descriptors for network communications as the nodes need to communicate with each other. The default number of file descriptors the operating ...
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