Let's back up a ways here and figure out why you're getting so many files open.
1> how many files are in your index? 2> are you committing very frequently? 3> or do you simply have a LOT of cores? 4> do you optimize your indexes? If so, how many files to you have in your cores before/after optimizing? You're perhaps exactly right in your approach, but with a bit more info we may be able to suggest other alternatives. Best Erick On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Nicholas W <4...@log1.net> wrote: > Dear All, > On a Linux system running a multi-core linux server, we are > experiencing a problem of too many files open which is causing tomcat > to abort. Reading the documentation, one of the things it seems we can > do is to switch to using compound indexes. We can see that in the > solrconfig.xml there is an option: > > > <useCompoundFile>true</useCompoundFile> > > in the <indexdefaults> and <mainindex> section. We have set this to > true and restarted tomcat. > > I have then used the script ./optimize script to get Solr to optimize > the index. In the lucene documentation it suggests this is the way to > switch to a compound index. However, with SOLR while the index is > optimized, its not converted to a compound file. > > What are we doing wrong? What is the correct way to convert an index > to use a compound file? > > Thanks a lot for your suggestions. > > Regards, > Nicholas >
