After some research on addShutdownHook it seems that Eclipse terminates program rather brutally giving neither finalize nor shutdownhook any chance to run. This is a known bug in Eclipse. The application I'm writing is a server that keeps a reader and a writer open at all time. I realized last nigth this will not work since they both need a lock (reader when deleting and writer when adding) so I need a workaround. Is it possible to temporarily let the reader release the lock so that the writer can add a document or do I need to close it and open it again when writer is finished ?
OS: win xp JVM: 1.5 /B _____ -----Original Message----- From: Michael McCandless [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: den 26 juli 2006 20:16 To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Lock obtain timed out Importance: Low >> When I close my application containing index writers the >> lock files are left in the temp directory causing an "Lock obtain >> timed out" error upon the next restart. > > My guess is that you keep a writer open even though there is no activity > involving adding new documents. Unless I have a massive never ending > stream of new data arriving (many thousand per minute) I usually try not > to have an open writer. Opening, adding documents and closing the writer > in iterations. It's also odd that you can repeat this so easily. What OS/platform are you using? The IndexWriter and IndexReader have their own finalizers to release (remove) the lock files. Is it possible your JVM is exiting in a non-graceful manner (ie crashing)? One known issue is Lucene just calls java.io.File.delete to remove the lock file, but doesn't check/confirm the returned result of this call that the file was actually deleted. We are working on improving the locking by using native (OS) locks instead, which should correctly free lock files whenever the JVM process exits. But this won't happen until a future Lucene release... Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
