If you check out the documentation for mergeFactor, you'll find that adjusting it downward can lower the number of open files. Just remember that it is a speed tradeoff, and only lower it as much as you need to to stop getting the "too many files" errors.
See this section: http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/03/05/lucene.html#indexing_speed Thanks, Stu -----Original Message----- From: Ard Schrijvers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thu, August 9, 2007 10:52 am To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Too many open files Hello, useCompoundFile set to true, should avoid the problem. You could also try to set maximum open files higher, something like (I assume linux) ulimit -n 8192 Ard > > You're a gentleman and a scholar. I will donate the M&Ms to > myself :). > Can you tell me from this snippet of my solrconfig.xml what I might > tweak to make this more betterer? > > -KH > > > default unless > overridden. --> > false > 10 > 1000 > 2147483647 > 10000 > 1000 > 10000 > >
