This probably means you're opening new readers without closing old ones. But that's just a guess. I'm guessing that this really has nothing to do with the delete itself, but the delete is what's finally pushing you over the limit.
I know this has been discussed before, try searching the mail archive for TooManyOpenFiles and/or File Handles.... You could get much better information by providing more details, see: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/UsingMailingLists?highlight=(most)|(users)|(list) Best Erick On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Anderson vasconcelos < anderson.v...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all > When i send a delete query to SOLR, using the SOLRJ i received this > exception: > > org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrServerException: java.net.SocketException: > Too many open files > 11:53:06,964 INFO [HttpMethodDirector] I/O exception > (java.net.SocketException) caught when processing request: Too many open > files > > Anyone could Help me? How i can solve this? > > Thanks >