Sami, As superuser: $ lsof | wc -l
But, just now, i also checked the system handler and it told me: <str name="ulimit">(error executing: ulimit -n)</str> This is rather strange, it seems. lsof | wc -l is not higher than 6k right now and ulimit -n is 32k. Is lsof not to be trusted in this case or... something else? Thanks On Wednesday 29 February 2012 16:44:58 Sami Siren wrote: > Hi Markus, > > > The Linux machines have proper settings for ulimit and friends, 32k open > > files allowed so i suspect there's another limit which i am unaware of. > > I also listed the number of open files while the errors were coming in > > but it did not exceed 11k at any given time. > > How did you check the number of filedescriptors used? Did you get this > number from the system info handler > (http://hotname:8983/solr/admin/system?indent=on&wt=json) or somehow > differently? > > -- > Sami Siren -- Markus Jelsma - CTO - Openindex