Just confirmed the fix for this problem is ready in patch LUCENE-1383<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1383>
Thanks Robert Engels for arguing with me and understand the problem quickly, and contributed a ClosableThreadLocal class, although the problem itself is hard to reproduce for him, and thanks Michael McCandless for fixing the problem soooo quickly. -- Chris Lu ------------------------- Instant Scalable Full-Text Search On Any Database/Application site: http://www.dbsight.net demo: http://search.dbsight.com Lucene Database Search in 3 minutes: http://wiki.dbsight.com/index.php?title=Create_Lucene_Database_Search_in_3_minutes DBSight customer, a shopping comparison site, (anonymous per request) got 2.6 Million Euro funding! On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Chris Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This usually happens on J2EE environment, if you use RAMDirectory. > Before Lucene-1195.(svn r659602, May23,2008), if you close() RAMDirectory, > the resources will be released right away. > > After Lucene-1195.(svn r659602, May23,2008),If you simply close() the > RAMDirectory, there will be an undetermined(and uncontrollable) time before > the RAMDirectory resources are released. > So if you want to avoid it, you will need to use re-open() function instead > of close() and open(), according to lucene developers. > > I haven't tried the re-open approach, but instead I downgrade to the svn > version before the patch. > In the previous version, close() means close(), not a delayed close(). > > Before Lucene developers are willing to fix this, I will have to manually > remove Lucene-1195 myself if an upgrade is needed. > > If you also want this to be fixed, you can join the ongoing discussion to > support it on java-dev @lucene.apache.org mailing list. > > -- > Chris Lu > ------------------------- > Instant Scalable Full-Text Search On Any Database/Application > site: http://www.dbsight.net > demo: http://search.dbsight.com > Lucene Database Search in 3 minutes: > http://wiki.dbsight.com/index.php?title=Create_Lucene_Database_Search_in_3_minutes > DBSight customer, a shopping comparison site, (anonymous per request) got > 2.6 Million Euro funding! >
