On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Peter G. Lane wrote:
> I've just run into a similar problem. I looked into the code and it > appears that the Collection.close() method is essentially a no-op (does > nothing but return true). Does this in fact mean that all of these > collection files are not being closed or am I missing something? I > thought maybe the dispose() method would do more, but it simply calls > the close() method. This would corroberate my observations that I have > to kill my JVM to clean up these open files. > > Peter Yes, this makes sense to me as well given the problems I've had. It also somewhat seems as though the database loads lots of collections upon initialization, or at least not only when requested. Sorry I don't have the ability to get into a deeper level of detail at the moment. I spent a lot of time on it, so I'll return to it at some point just to find out for myself what happened. Thanks, David