This looks like the same problem I am having - see subject: "Optimize Crash". So far I have had no reply from anyone on this list, nor from the dev list.
If you catch errors to a log do you see the same one I reported? The temporary workaround is to NOT optimise at all. This will impact the search performance marginally, but at least will save you from running out of disk. Cheers, Paul. Paul Williams wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently using Java 1.4.2_03 with Lucene 1.3 Final. I am using the > option setUseCompoundFile(true) as I have a lot of fields in the database > schema, and it can cause the dreaded 'too many open file error' on Windows > based systems. (Optimising after 1000 documents with a merge factor of a > 100) > > But I am having a problem with updating a reasonable sized index. It seems > to leave temporary files which can treble the size of the index on the hard > disk. (You can delete these file afterwards with no ill effects) > > I have checked to make sure no other processes are locking these files > (virus checker/backup software etc.) > > See the directory listing below for the index files. > > Has anyone else had a similar problem? And hopefully come up with a > solution!! > > Regards, > > Paul > > 15/04/2004 11:05 <DIR> . > 15/04/2004 11:05 <DIR> .. > 15/04/2004 10:55 4 deletable > 15/04/2004 11:05 0 dir.txt > 15/04/2004 10:55 76 segments > 11/04/2004 09:22 516,150,272 _11au.fdt > 11/04/2004 09:22 12,288 _11au.fdx > 11/04/2004 09:19 1,169 _11au.fnm > 11/04/2004 15:00 3,969,914,880 _12nq.fdt > 11/04/2004 15:00 283,648 _12nq.fdx > 11/04/2004 14:39 1,169 _12nq.fnm > 14/04/2004 17:14 5,689,259,942 _15ar.cfs > 15/04/2004 10:17 5,462 _15ar.del > 14/04/2004 17:19 8,619,569 _15e0.cfs > 15/04/2004 10:12 21 _15e0.del > 15/04/2004 07:58 563,730 _15es.cfs > 15/04/2004 08:25 394,474 _15fg.cfs > 15/04/2004 10:18 663,616 _15g5.cfs > 15/04/2004 10:55 9,385 _15g9.cfs > 10/04/2004 16:06 939,758,592 _vas.fdt > 10/04/2004 16:06 25,600 _vas.fdx > 10/04/2004 16:01 1,169 _vas.fnm > 10/04/2004 16:23 656,837,632 _vuu.fdt > 10/04/2004 16:23 23,552 _vuu.fdx > 10/04/2004 16:20 1,169 _vuu.fnm > 10/04/2004 17:39 98,271,232 _y6h.fdt > 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