topic Re: Too many open files in Alfresco Archive

Too many open files

konsultex — Mon, 21 May 2007 19:49:19 GMT

I'm using Alfresco 1.4.0 community on Fedora 4 with Java 1.6.0 u1 and Jboss 4.5. JBoss is used for Alfresco and 2 othe applications. Every once in a while I have a tomcat error come up while somebody is using Alfresco (web client) which I normally ignored and just tried again. Today I went to see th

Re: Too many open files

steve — Tue, 22 May 2007 10:19:13 GMT

Hi,

Have a look here to see if this helps to resolve your problem:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Search#File_Handles_and_lucene

Steve

Re: Too many open files

konsultex — Wed, 23 May 2007 16:34:54 GMT

Steve,

Thanks for the idea. My Alfresco is run by the jboss user which had only 1024 file handles so I reset it to 4096. I hope it solves the problem. Anyway, since I plan an upgrade to 2.0.x soon, it may also go away with the new Lucene.

Re: Too many open files

konsultex — Mon, 28 May 2007 19:12:45 GMT

I just want to confirm that after I applied the above procedure the error did not happen again. 4096 was the right value in my case.