First of, thanks to Jagadesh Nandasamy who directed me to the right direction.
It seems, that in my situation, more homogeneous indexes work better than fewer heterogeneous indexes: I have a dozen class that I'm indexing. They vary from two fields to more than a dozen field per document (aka object). I went through different indexing strategy with them (per class, per date, per root class, ... ) to see how it goes. In any case, while trying to use my stuff with rc4 I consolidated all my different class indexes into one root class index to see if I could reduce my resources consumption. Less indexes, less RandomAccessFile was the rational. Well, I was wrong. In fact the exact opposite seems to hold true: more -homogeneous- indexes use overall less RandomAccessFile than less -heterogeneous- indexes... One of those -not so obvious- thing you have to learn the hard way I guess... ;-) In any case, I would like to thanks again Jagadesh for his insight. Also thanks to Pier Fumagalli for pointing out "LSOF". A very handy tool indeed. As a final note, several people suggested to increase the number of file descriptors per process with something like "ulimit"... From what I learned today, I think it's a *bad* idea to have to change some system parameters just because your/my app is written in such a way that it may run out of some system resources. Your/my app has to fit in the system. Hacking "ulimit" and/or other system parameters is just a quick patch that will -at best- delay dealing with the real problem that's usually one of design. Just my two cents. PA. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
