On 3/13/07, Benjamin Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 12, 2007, at 18:54, Benjamin Krause wrote: > > > Hi Dave, > > > > i just stumbled across a new error i haven't seen before :) > > > > caught error inside loop: IO Error occured at <except.c>:93 in xraise > > Error occured in fs_store.c:264 - fs_new_output > > couldn't create OutStream /var/www/localhost/rails/current/ > > script/backgroundrb/../../config/../db/ferret.index.production/ > > _jei_0.f0: <Too many open files> > > > > my ulimit is set to 1024 files, the error occurs regularly.. any idea? > > ah, and i should add, this is from our backgroundrb indexing process > there is basically nothing else than opening and closing the index, all > of the time. this isn't necessarily a ferret problem, but the process > isn't doing much else.
This is not a bug but rather a limitation of the operating system. There are a few solutions. If you are getting this problem you should definitely be sure to set :use_compound_file to true (which is the default setting). You might also like to lower the merge_factor which defaults to 10. Having a lower merge_factor will slow indexing a little but it will actually make search faster. Try setting it to 4. Alternatively, in your situation, I would probably just increase the file handle limit. I'm sure you'd have enough memory to do that. Cheers, Dave -- Dave Balmain http://www.davebalmain.com/ _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
