Hi,
>I'm using 3.2 because I can't get velocity to run on 3.5. Maybe this is worth asking about in a separate thread.... or maybe you already did that. >I've changed my writeLockTimeout from 1000 to 10000, and my >commitLockTimeout from 10000 to 50000 > >Running on a large ec2 box, which has 2 virtual cores. I don't know how to Note: *2* *virtual* cores. >find out the # of concurrent indexer threads. Is that the same as >maxWarmingSearchers? If that's the case I've changed it from 2 to 5. I 2 is better than 5 here >have about 12 processes running concurrently to read/write to solr at the >moment, but this is just a test and I'm planning to up this number to 50 - >100. Some of these processes are writing to Solr (indexing), others are reading from it (searching). Having more than 1-2 indexing processes on an EC2 box with just 2 *virtual* cores will be suboptimal. Does the error go away if you change your application to have just 1 indexing thread? Otis---- Performance Monitoring SaaS for Solr - http://sematext.com/spm/solr-performance-monitoring/index.html > > > >On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Otis Gospodnetic < >otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Hi Eric, >> >> And you are using the latest version of Solr, 3.5.0? >> What is the timeout in solrconfig.xml? >> How many CPU cores does the machine have and how many concurrent indexer >> threads do you have running? >> >> Otis >> ---- >> Performance Monitoring SaaS for Solr - >> http://sematext.com/spm/solr-performance-monitoring/index.html >> >> >> >> >________________________________ >> > From: Eric Tang <eric.x.t...@gmail.com> >> >To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >> >Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 10:08 AM >> >Subject: Lock obtain timed out >> > >> >Hi, >> > >> >I'm doing a lot reads and writes into a single solr server (on the >> >magnitude of 50ish per second), and have around 300,000 documents in the >> >index. >> > >> >Now every 5 minutes I get this exception: >> >SEVERE: org.apache.lucene.store.LockObtainFailedException: Lock obtain >> >timed out: NativeFSLock@./solr/data/index/write.lock >> > >> >And I have to restart my solr process. >> > >> >I've done some googling, some people have suggested raising the limit for >> >linux file open #, or changing the merge factor, but that didn't work. >> >Does anyone have insights into this? >> > >> > >> >Thanks, >> >Eric >> > >> > >> > >> > > >