On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:26 AM, John Byrne <john.by...@propylon.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I've got a weird problem with a lucene index, using 2.3.1. The index > contains 6660 files. I don't know how this happened.Maybe somone can tell me > something about the files themselves? (examples below) > > On one day, between 10 and 40 of these files were being created every > minute. The index updates are triggered by updates to an SVN repository, but > I can't find any corresponding activity in the SVN logs. > > The lucene files all have names like this: > > _1qsw.cfs > _1qsx.cfs > _1qsy.cfs > _1qsz.cfs > _1qt0.cfs > > and are mostly < 5K in size. > > My application uses just one instance each of > IndexReader/IndexWriter/IndexSearcher. From looking at > > Can anyone shed any light on these files? I'm not too hopeful about fixing > this index because we are getting "too many open files", even with an > unlimited ulimit, but any info/suggestions would be great. Thanks. > If you're using linux you can up the number of file descriptors by writing a value to proc: echo 100000 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max ( http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/pipermail/plug-discuss/2000-September/005508.html ) > > -John > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
