Thread: Too many open files (over 1000 indexes)

Correction: search command seems to work and it's only the sphinxapi.php that is throwing the error from GetLastError() after executing Query() from the API.

'search' works by opening just the indexes it needs - so shouldnt have this issue (its for debugging only remember) whereas the api connects to deamon (searchd) running continouslly - better for speed. That deamon preopens all files Perhaps look at the preopen_indexes config option? (check you havnt changed from default) Otherwise you probably looking at partitioning up your data to...

thanks for your response. preopen_indexes in the searchd settings is on default 0 if I do an lsof on linux it shows ALL the indexes, why would they be showing up with preopen_indexes = 0 ? I strongly believe there is a max setting for indexes somewhere!

When I restart searchd it lists all indexes precached index INDEX_NAME. Is there a way to disable precaching?

Even if I put preopen = 0 for each index { } and preopen_indexes = 0 in indexer {} and I do an lsof; all indexes are still being open by searchd. It looks like those settings are not having any effect?

Hi - can anyone offer me some more advice? cheers

> Hi - can anyone offer me some more advice? cheers It's a bit outside my experience. But as say I would recommend looking at partitioning your data across multiple searchd instances...