topic Many, many open files in Alfresco Archive

Many, many open files

raphael — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:18:21 GMT

Dear users and developers,I'm currently testing alfresco 1.3 official release (alfresco-community-tomcat-1.3.0.tar.gz) patched as mentioned in another thread concerning CIFS and NTLM [1]. So alfresco is configured to do NTLM passthru for the CIFS server and it just works.However, I've rapidly faced

Re: Many, many open files

derek — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:10:30 GMT

Hi,

The Lucene-based will constantly accessing the indexes, so I'm not too surprised with the list of files you indicate. It's not that they aren't closed properly, but rather that they are constantly being used.

Does the system behave with the limits increased?

Regards

Re: Many, many open files

raphael — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:35:25 GMT

Hi,

thanks for your fast answer. In fact the number of open files increased regularly while the system is not used at all. After some more investigation this morning, I think I've tracked down the "guilty":

each time the EmailListener launches its schedule I have 10 more opened files and they are never released. Even without any emailListener configured the number of opened files increase by 10 each minute as soon as there is the debug output in the alfresco.log. After emailListener deactivation, I've no problem anymore (currently 141 opened files). I'm gonna try to contact the maintainer of this extension and update this case consequently.

Thanks for all and keep the good work,
Rapha

Re: Many, many open files

raphael — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:53:01 GMT

Hi,

just a small update. One of the developers of email listener has just posted a patch concerning this. It's available from here:
http://forge.alfresco.com/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2&group_id=18&atid=153

(I precise that it seems to solve this issue!)

Cheers,
Raphael