Post complete code. You are not closing the objects (IndexWriter / Index Searcher) properly.
Regards Aditya www.findbestopensource.com On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Michel Blase <mblas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have few problems Indexing. I keep hitting "Too many open files". It > seems like Lucene is not releasing files handlers after deleting segments. > > This is a piece from the lsof output showing the problem: > > > java 23024 root *347r REG 251,0 2660 149376 > /home/INDEXES_ROOT/SMPL_1/_bvq.cfs (deleted) > java 23024 root *348r REG 251,0 2477 149382 > /home/INDEXES_ROOT/SMPL_1/_bvr.cfs (deleted) > java 23024 root *349r REG 251,0 2747 149392 > /home/INDEXES_ROOT/SMPL_1/_bvu.cfs (deleted) > java 23024 root *350r REG 251,0 2339 149384 > /home/INDEXES_ROOT/SMPL_1/_bvs.cfs (deleted) > > and this is the code I'm using (I'm using Lucene3.6) > > -- IndexWriter creation: > > File app = new File(path); > Directory dir = FSDirectory.open(app); > IndexWriterConfig config = new > IndexWriterConfig(LuceneVersion.CurrentVersion,new > StandardAnalyzer(LuceneVersion.CurrentVersion)); > > //these are random tries attempting to solve the problem: > config.setRAMBufferSizeMB(400); > TieredMergePolicy mp = (TieredMergePolicy)config.getMergePolicy(); > mp.setUseCompoundFile(true); > config.setMergePolicy(mp); > IndexWriter im = new IndexWriter(dir,config); > > -- Then just a loop over my doc list calling for indexing: > im.addDocument(doc, analyzer); > > > Any idea? > Thanks, > Luca >
