Out of curiosity, how many files are held open when you hit the limit? What does ulimit show? And what does lsof show?
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Paul deGrandis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 3:28:29 PM > Subject: Reduction of open files > > I have been working with SOLR for a few months now. According to some > documentation I read, segment files only have one set of all the other > lingustic module type of stuff (normalization, frequency), is there a > way to remove/reduce the files not associated with a segment besides > optimizing the index? > > I set my mergeFactor to 2 for sake of trying to tease out a solution. > I have tried readercycle thinking it was just stale readers. That did > not work. > > If anyone has any experience or knows of any documentation that can > get me closer to achieving this, I would greatly appreciate it. > > Paul