On 6/1/07, Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jun 1, 2007, at 10:47 PM, Mike Klaas wrote:
>> Am I just doing something wrong?
>
> No. Lucene sometimes just requires many file descriptors (this
> will be somewhat alleviated with Solr 1.2). I suggest upping the
> open file limit (I upped mine from 1024 to 45000 to handle huge
> indices). You can alleviate this by reducing the mergeFactor, but
> this can impact indexing performance.
Another thing to do which will definitely keep file handles down is
to set to the compound index format. That setting is in solrconfig.xml
That should be less necessary when Solr 1.2 comes out (next week, I promise ;-)
There are now 8 files per segment instead of 7 + num_indexed_fields
-Yonik
