RE: Too many open files and ulimit limits reached

2011-07-02 Thread Ralf Heyde
From: Hiller, Dean x66079 [mailto:dean.hil...@broadridge.com] Sent: Donnerstag, 30. Juni 2011 22:52 To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Too many open files and ulimit limits reached When I do a writer.open(), writer.add(), writer.close(), how many files can I expect to be opened with Lucen

Too many open files and ulimit limits reached

2011-06-30 Thread Hiller, Dean x66079
When I do a writer.open(), writer.add(), writer.close(), how many files can I expect to be opened with Lucene. I am running indexes on some very big data so we have 16 writers open and I hit the limit of 20 on my machine so I increased it to the max of 1048576 files open, BUT that might