[pylucene-dev] Fatal error in gc

[Nick Arnett]

Nick Arnett wrote:

> I'm getting the above error when doing long indexing runs with 
> PyLucene.  It's Windows a dialog box with that as the title and this 
> as the contents: "Too many root sets."
>
> I'm guessing this is a Lucene problem, not PyLucene...? 

Figured out what triggers it... large values for 
IndexWriter.mergeFactor.  Seems to be okay at 2,000, but it was throwing 
that error at 10,000.

Nick