Re: Oracle Text :: Linux :: "Too many open files"

On 18 Jul 2005 13:29:37 -0700, "JL" <jetlag11235_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

>I am skeptical that Oracle would try to open all the files
>simultaneously; however, I am wondering if there may be a bug which
>prevents files from being closed in a timely way. thanks.
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>_DETAILS_
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>The path column of the table to be indexed contains entries of the form
>"file:///Jay/{path}/{filename}". /Jay is the mount point for a Windows
>server mounted read-only via smbmount.

Likely your problem is not so much Oracle, but the decision not to buy sufficient disk space on that Linux server, but too rely on an NFS-like mount on a Windows server. Windows is a can of worms and NFS is too.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA