topic Too many files open in Alfresco Archive

Too many files open

kurt2439 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:37:07 GMT

Occasionally Alfresco "crashes" (it responds but when logging in to share you will usually get a java runtime error) and the catalina.out file displays the following error many times. Is this a memory related issue in the tomcat server or something operating system specific? Anyone know? A restart o

Re: Too many files open

cheffilet — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:41:22 GMT

Lucene-Exception due to the restriction of open files in the file-system. You should raise up your current limit via:
ulimit -n 65536

Re: Too many files open

kurt2439 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:49:57 GMT

thanks for the quick reply. I will try that. It is currently set to 1024. I wonder if such a huge increase is necessary or potentially disadvantageous?

Re: Too many files open

cheffilet — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:34:49 GMT

It depends in many circumstances on your configuration regarding the file-handles that can be taken from Lucene in the same time. I dont know those parameters straight from my head but these should influencing the ulimit value.

Good Luck