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Parth of umbrella issue #177274 On the UNIX platforms (except of Mac) max of concurrently opened indexes is 400 which may affect performance. The indexing wiki should be extended to describe how to solve this problem.
Fixed documented on: http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqScanningAndIndexingPerformanceHints#File_Descriptor_Limit_On_UNIX
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