[Plucene] Problem with too many open files

[J Robinson]

I've run into that "too many open files" problem with
other software on OS X, and a line like the following
seemed to be the solution: (this is for bash)
 ulimit -n 2000

hope this helps
jrobinson

--- Florian Helmberger <fh at laudatio.com> wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm just looking into Plucene (on a workstation
> running Mac OS 10.3) 
> and ran into an error thrown by t/stress.t:
> 
> ===
> Plucene::Store::InputStream, r:
> t/homer_index/foo/_21.frq Too many open 
> files at lib/Plucene/Store/InputStream.pm line 41.
> 1..48
> ===
> 
> I think this leads to a problem with the file
> handling which just pops 
> up earlier on Mac OS X (which has a limit of 256
> open files). I 
> switched to a box running AIX 4.3 and used the index
> generated by the 
> t/stress.t and searched for 'dark wine' with this
> loop:
> 
>    for (1 .. 100) {
>        my $index =
> Plucene::Simple->open("./homer_index");
>        @ids = $index->search($query);
>    }
> 
> This works fine until I loop 165 times, resulting in
> the mentioned 
> error (sorry, I don't know what the limit of open
> files under AIX is).
> 
> One might think that this problem exists since 1.04
> as there has been 
> the first error report showing this behaviour: 
>
http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/121536
> .
> 
> Nevertheless I'm very impressed by Plucene - many
> thanks to you guys :)
> 
> Florian
> 
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