On Dec 24, 2007 1:25 PM, Mark Baird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So my question is, when the Reader is being closed due to a commit, what > exactly is happening? Is it just being set to null and a new instance being > created?
No, we reference count the SolrIndexSearcher so that it is closed immediately after the last request is finished using it. We do that specifically to avoid running out of file descriptors. > After looking at the code, it looks like reader.close() is explicitly being > called as long as the closeReader property in SolrIndexSearcher is set to > true, but I'm not sure how to check if that is always getting set to true or > not. There is one constructor of SolrIndexSearcher that sets it to false. I just verified that the constructor that sets it to false (because it is passed a reader) is not used anywhere in Solr. > Any insight here would be appreciated. Are stale file handles something I > should just expect from the JVM? I wouldn't think so. I don't currently have a UNIX system handy to check... could you perhaps try the latest development version and see if it has the same behavior? -Yonik
