On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 09:59 +0100, Nitin Solanki wrote: > Ran this command ulimit -a and found open files (-n) 1024
That explains your error message. > size of Xmx = 2048MB > > Total Indexed data = 2.04GB That was surprising. Solr allocation should not reach 20GB with that setup. How did you get the 20GB number? > I checked my solrconfig.xml but didn't find any value of > MMapDirectory. I don't know the default size of > MMapDirectory. MMapDirectory is used per default under Linux, as far as I remember. You don't have to change anything. > How to increase the size of open files? It is probably best to follow a guide, for example: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-increase-the-maximum-number-of-open-files/ - Toke Eskildsen, State and University Library, Denmark