If you are on linux the number of file handles for a session is much lower than that for the whole machine. "ulimit -n" will tell you. There are instructions on the web for changing this setting, it involves the /etc/security/limits.conf and setting the values for "nofile".
(bulkadm is my user) bulkadm soft nofile 8192 bulkadm hard nofile 65536 Also, if you use the condensed file format you will have many fewer files. -----Original Message----- From: Neelam Bhatnagar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 10:02 AM To: Otis Gospodnetic Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Too many open files issue Hi, I had requested help on an issue we have been facing with the "Too many open files" Exception garbling the search indexes and crashing the search on the web site. As a suggestion, you had asked us to look at the articles on O'Reilly Network which had specific context around this exact problem. One of the suggestions was to increase the limit on the number of file descriptors on the file system. We tried it by first lowering the limit to 200 from 256 in order to reproduce the exception. The exception did get reproduced but even after increasing the limit to 500, the exception kept coming until after several rounds of trying to rebuild the index, we finally got to get it working for the default file descriptor limit of 256. This makes us wonder if your first suggestion of optimizing indexes is a pre-requisite to trying this option. Another piece of relevant information is that we have the default merge factor of 10. Kindly give us pointers to what it that we are doing wrong or should we be trying something completely different. Thanks and regards Neelam Bhatnagar --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
