[SERVER-33220] Understanding number of file descriptors needed by mongod process Created: 09/Feb/18 Updated: 12/Feb/18 Resolved: 11/Feb/18 |
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| Status: | Closed |
| Project: | Core Server |
| Component/s: | None |
| Affects Version/s: | None |
| Fix Version/s: | None |
| Type: | Question | Priority: | Major - P3 |
| Reporter: | onkar | Assignee: | Dmitry Agranat |
| Resolution: | Duplicate | Votes: | 0 |
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Hi, |
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| Comment by onkar [ 12/Feb/18 ] |
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Thanks for response. We are already planning to move towards ATLAS to scale horizontally. |
| Comment by Dmitry Agranat [ 11/Feb/18 ] |
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Hello onkarb, Thank you for the question. MongoDB holds a file descriptor for every data file. As in WiredTiger, this results in a file for each collection + a file for each index.
This is tracked in
When increasing the capacity of a single server is reaching its limit, we recommend horizontal scaling through sharding I'm going to close this ticket as a duplicate of Thank you, |