Error when opening a lucene index: Map failed

Question

I have tried starting the process with 1,2,3,4 GB of memory but still get the same error. Any tips? The gc log shows that its running the GC even though it has enough memory. But probably this error has something to do with the memory mapped files using NIO. Anybody has seen anything like this before? And if so, how did you solve it?

$ java -d64 -server -Xmx15g -Xms15g -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC  -verbose:gc -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=/home/frank/heap.dmp  -jar lukeall-3.5.0.jar 
    [Full GC 207648K->28758K(15660544K), 0.1105290 secs]
    [Full GC 61479K->15416K(15660544K), 0.0654310 secs]
    [Full GC 69950K->15418K(15660544K), 0.0717170 secs]
    [Full GC 69952K->15418K(15660544K), 0.0661720 secs]
    java.io.IOException: Map failed
        at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.map(FileChannelImpl.java:849)
        at org.apache.lucene.store.MMapDirectory$MMapIndexInput.<init>(MMapDirectory.java:265)
        at org.apache.lucene.store.MMapDirectory.openInput(MMapDirectory.java:216)
        at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentCoreReaders.<init>(SegmentCoreReaders.java:89)
        at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentReader.get(SegmentReader.java:115)
        at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentReader.get(SegmentReader.java:93)
        at org.apache.lucene.index.DirectoryReader.<init>(DirectoryReader.java:113)
        at org.apache.lucene.index.DirectoryReader$1.doBody(DirectoryReader.java:83)
        at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentInfos$FindSegmentsFile.run(SegmentInfos.java:754)
        at org.apache.lucene.index.DirectoryReader.open(DirectoryReader.java:75)
        at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader.open(IndexReader.java:462)
        at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader.open(IndexReader.java:377)
        at org.getopt.luke.Luke.openIndex(Unknown Source)
        at org.getopt.luke.Luke.openOk(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at thinlet.Thinlet.invokeImpl(Unknown Source)
        at thinlet.Thinlet.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4861)
    Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Map failed
        at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.map0(Native Method)
        at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.map(FileChannelImpl.java:846)
        ... 48 more

Answer 1

ulimit -v unlimited

Solved the problem!