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[[file-descriptors]]
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=== File Descriptors
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Elasticsearch uses a lot of file descriptors or file handles. Running out of
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file descriptors can be disastrous and will most probably lead to data loss.
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Make sure to increase the limit on the number of open files descriptors for
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the user running Elasticsearch to 65,536 or higher.
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For the `.zip` and `.tar.gz` packages, set <<ulimit,`ulimit -n 65536`>> as
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root before starting Elasticsearch, or set `nofile` to `65536` in
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<<limits.conf,`/etc/security/limits.conf`>>.
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RPM and Debian packages already default the maximum number of file
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descriptors to 65536 and do not require further configuration.
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You can check the `max_file_descriptors` configured for each node
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using the <<cluster-nodes-stats>> API, with:
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[source,js]
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curl 'localhost:9200/_nodes/stats/process?pretty&filter_path=**.max_file_descriptors'
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--------------------------------------------------
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