I'm just using jackrabbit "straight out of the box" so it's the
DerbyPersistenceManager using the LocalFileSystem

I'll think I'll start to experiment with persistance managers.

Cheers,
Graeme

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Guggisberg [mailto:stefan.guggisberg@gmail.com] 
Sent: 09 August 2006 11:07
To: users@jackrabbit.apache.org
Subject: Re: Maximum child node limit

hi graeme,

On 8/9/06, Graeme Wilkinson <graemew@enigma-interactive.co.uk> wrote:
> Is there a limit to the number of child nodes a node can have? I have

logically no, physically yes (depending on the choice of persistence
manager.

what persistence manager did you use?

cheers
stefan

> been doing some performance testing where I have just been repeatedly 
> adding new child nodes under the root node. I now get an 
> ItemNotFoundExecption whenever I try and add another node (using the 
> following code)
>
> newNode = myRoot.addNode( "myNode" );
> newNode.addMixin( "mix:referenceable" ); mySession.save();
>
> On the call to save() an ItemNotFoundException is thrown. The UUID in 
> the message of the exception is different each time (see partial
> stacktrace) so it would seem that is it creating something. The path 
> of my last node is /myNode[22687] (there are other nodes under the 
> root which is probably why 22687 is such an arbitrary number) and this

> never changes no matter how many times I try and create a new node.
> Interestingly, if I delete an existing node I can then create a new 
> node, which is what has led me to believe there is a limit to the 
> number of child nodes.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Graeme
>
>
>
> STACKTRACE
>
> javax.jcr.ItemNotFoundException:
> 20d7a630-92d9-4e06-b726-b5ec2d28c976/{http://www.jcp.org/jcr/1.0}prima
> ry
> Type at org.ap......
>
>