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Set a proper max open files limit for Kafka clusters
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During the last Kafka main-eqiad outage the max open files setting of the Kafka systemd unit was increased to infinity (it was 65k previously). Should we set it to a more appropriate value like 128000?

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elukey triaged this task as High priority.Jul 23 2018, 7:46 AM
elukey created this task.

Change 447389 had a related patch set uploaded (by Elukey; owner: Elukey):
[operations/puppet@production] profile::kafka::broker: raise default max open files to 128k

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/447389

Change 447389 merged by Elukey:
[operations/puppet@production] profile::kafka::broker: raise default max open files to 128k

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/447389