Hello,
We are getting hundreds of ‘Lock obtain timed out’ errors (see stack trace below) – checking the mailing list archive : INFO: Opening [EMAIL PROTECTED] DirectUpdateHandler2 12-Jan-2007 14:36:37 org.apache.solr.core.SolrException log SEVERE: Exception during commit/optimize:java.io.IOException: Lock obtain timed out: SimpleFSLock@/tmp/lucene-5d12dd782520964674beb001c4877b36-write.lock at org.apache.lucene.store.Lock.obtain(Lock.java:69) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader.aquireWriteLock(IndexReader.java:516) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader.deleteDocument(IndexReader.java:541) at org.apache.solr.update.DirectUpdateHandler2.doDeletions(DirectUpdateHandler2.java:459) at org.apache.solr.update.DirectUpdateHandler2.commit(DirectUpdateHandler2.java:494) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.update(SolrCore.java:763) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrUpdateServlet.doPost(SolrUpdateServlet.java:53) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:616) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:428) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler.dispatch(WebApplicationHandler.java:473) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:568) at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1530) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationContext.handle(WebApplicationContext.java:633) at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1482) at org.mortbay.http.HttpServer.service(HttpServer.java:909) at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.service(HttpConnection.java:820) at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handleNext(HttpConnection.java:986) at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:837) at org.mortbay.http.SocketListener.handleConnection(SocketListener.java:245) at org.mortbay.util.ThreadedServer.handle(ThreadedServer.java:357) at org.mortbay.util.ThreadPool$PoolThread.run(ThreadPool.java:534) and also many ‘Too Many Files open’ errors such as: 12-Jan-2007 14:49:00 org.apache.solr.core.SolrException log SEVERE: java.io.IOException: Too many open files at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method) at java.io.File.createNewFile(File.java:850) at org.apache.lucene.store.SimpleFSLock.obtain(SimpleFSLockFactory.java:122) at org.apache.lucene.store.Lock.obtain(Lock.java:60) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.<init>(IndexWriter.java:258) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.<init>(IndexWriter.java:208) at org.apache.solr.update.SolrIndexWriter.<init>(SolrIndexWriter.java:66) at org.apache.solr.update.UpdateHandler.createMainIndexWriter(UpdateHandler.java:119) at org.apache.solr.update.DirectUpdateHandler2.openWriter(DirectUpdateHandler2.java:176) at org.apache.solr.update.DirectUpdateHandler2.addDoc(DirectUpdateHandler2.java:247) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.update(SolrCore.java:716) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrUpdateServlet.doPost(SolrUpdateServlet.java:53) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:616) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:428) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler.dispatch(WebApplicationHandler.java:473) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:568) at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1530) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationContext.handle(WebApplicationContext.java:633) at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1482) at org.mortbay.http.HttpServer.service(HttpServer.java:909) at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.service(HttpConnection.java:820) at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handleNext(HttpConnection.java:986) at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:837) at org.mortbay.http.SocketListener.handleConnection(SocketListener.java:245) at org.mortbay.util.ThreadedServer.handle(ThreadedServer.java:357) at org.mortbay.util.ThreadPool$PoolThread.run(ThreadPool.java:534) 12-Jan-2007 14:49:00 org.apache.solr.update.DirectUpdateHandler2 commit INFO: start commit(optimize=false,waitFlush=false,waitSearcher=true) 12-Jan-2007 14:49:00 org.apache.solr.update.DirectUpdateHandler2 doDeletions INFO: DirectUpdateHandler2 deleting and removing dups for 5 ids 12-Jan-2007 14:49:00 org.apache.solr.core.SolrException log SEVERE: Exception during commit/optimize:java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/local/solr/slando/solr/data/index/_7ut.tis (Too many open files) at java.io.RandomAccessFile.open(Native Method) at java.io.RandomAccessFile.<init>(RandomAccessFile.java:212) at org.apache.lucene.store.FSIndexInput$Descriptor.<init>(FSDirectory.java:482) at org.apache.lucene.store.FSIndexInput.<init>(FSDirectory.java:491) at org.apache.lucene.store.FSDirectory.openInput(FSDirectory.java:424) at org.apache.lucene.index.TermInfosReader.<init>(TermInfosReader.java:49) at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentReader.initialize(SegmentReader.java:148) at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentReader.get(SegmentReader.java:130) at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentReader.get(SegmentReader.java:111) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader$1.doBody(IndexReader.java:153) at org.apache.lucene.store.Lock$With.run(Lock.java:116) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader.open(IndexReader.java:142) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader.open(IndexReader.java:126) at org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher.<init>(SolrIndexSearcher.java:85) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.newSearcher(SolrCore.java:117) at org.apache.solr.update.DirectUpdateHandler2.openSearcher(DirectUpdateHandler2.java:194) at org.apache.solr.update.DirectUpdateHandler2.doDeletions(DirectUpdateHandler2.java:421) at org.apache.solr.update.DirectUpdateHandler2.commit(DirectUpdateHandler2.java:494) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.update(SolrCore.java:763) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrUpdateServlet.doPost(SolrUpdateServlet.java:53) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:616) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:428) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationHandler.dispatch(WebApplicationHandler.java:473) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:568) at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1530) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.WebApplicationContext.handle(WebApplicationContext.java:633) at org.mortbay.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1482) at org.mortbay.http.HttpServer.service(HttpServer.java:909) at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.service(HttpConnection.java:820) at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handleNext(HttpConnection.java:986) at org.mortbay.http.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:837) at org.mortbay.http.SocketListener.handleConnection(SocketListener.java:245) at org.mortbay.util.ThreadedServer.handle(ThreadedServer.java:357) at org.mortbay.util.ThreadPool$PoolThread.run(ThreadPool.java:534) Are the two problems related? Looking through the mailing list it seems that changing the settings for useCompoundFile from false to true could help but before I do that I would like to understand if there are undesirable side effects, what isn’t this param set to true by default? Thanks Stephanie