I'm not aware of any bugs in 1.9 to cause such a problem -- 1.9 is actually
very solid.  Still, do try the latest version like DIGY suggested, at the
same time, you should find out how the user was using Lucene to cause this
issue.

-- George

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DIGY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 12:06 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: cfs and temporary files (fdt, fnm etc)
> 
> I would strongly recommend to upgrade to version 2.0.0.4 or 
> to 2.1.0(from SVN).
> There are a lot of bugs fixed.
> 
> DIGY
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D Bera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 8:09 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: cfs and temporary files (fdt, fnm etc)
> 
> Hi,
>   We use dotlucene-1.9 for indexing in our desktop search tool.
> Recently one user complained about lots of temporary files in 
> his index, see the list at the end of this email. As you will 
> see, there are the cfs files (and correctly referenced in the 
> segments file) but then there are lots of fdt/fnm/fdx files 
> and a bunch from the latest run too. The prefixes of the f* 
> files do not appear in the segments file, so could it be that 
> the process somehow crashed during indexing but before being 
> able to merge them to the corresponding cfs file ?
> What does lucene do with the leftover f* files in such cases 
> ? Or it is the applications responsbility to remove the 
> temporary files. The user did not report any kind of crash 
> while indexing, so is there any other crazy possibility ? We 
> do an Optimize() after the indexing is over - so anything 
> could go wrong in that ?
> 
> ...
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup 17611812 2007-10-23 07:41 _63qu.fdt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup   296720 2007-10-23 07:41 _63qu.fdx
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup     1426 2007-10-23 07:41 _63qu.fnm
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup  7766016 2007-10-23 07:41 _63qu.frq
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup 13336576 2007-10-23 07:41 _63qu.prx
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup    57344 2007-10-23 07:41 _63qu.tii
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup  4046848 2007-10-23 07:41 _63qu.tis
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup 15699968 2007-11-16 07:38 _68w9.fdt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup   253952 2007-11-16 07:38 _68w9.fdx
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup     1426 2007-11-16 07:38 _68w9.fnm
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup 17628575 2007-11-20 07:38 _69hn.fdt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup   297160 2007-11-20 07:38 _69hn.fdx
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup     1426 2007-11-20 07:38 _69hn.fnm
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup  7458816 2007-11-20 07:39 _69hn.frq
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup 12976128 2007-11-20 07:39 _69hn.prx
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup    49152 2007-11-20 07:39 _69hn.tii
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup  3694592 2007-11-20 07:39 _69hn.tis
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup 17910953 2007-12-07 07:38 _6zx9.fdt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup   302672 2007-12-07 07:38 _6zx9.fdx
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup     1426 2007-12-07 07:38 _6zx9.fnm
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup  6561792 2007-12-07 07:38 _6zx9.frq
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup 11542528 2007-12-07 07:38 _6zx9.prx
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup    32768 2007-12-07 07:38 _6zx9.tii
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup  2998272 2007-12-07 07:38 _6zx9.tis
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup 49329915 2007-12-08 07:38 _7048.cfs
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup     4738 2007-12-09 07:41 _7048.del
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup  1428220 2007-12-09 07:40 _70z3.cfs
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup  1218550 2007-12-09 07:41 _71ty.cfs
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup   147565 2007-12-09 07:41 _71x1.cfs
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup    31054 2007-12-09 07:41 _71xc.cfs
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup    17702 2007-12-09 07:41 _71xn.cfs
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup    15017 2007-12-09 07:41 _71xy.cfs
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup     5716 2007-12-09 07:41 _71y4.cfs
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup  5259264 2007-12-09 07:41 _71y5.fdt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup    90112 2007-12-09 07:41 _71y5.fdx
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup     1426 2007-12-09 07:41 _71y5.fnm
> -rw-r--r-- 1 beagleindex nogroup        4 2007-12-09 07:41 deletable
> ...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - dBera
> 

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