From 0a7da3fbf745febf805df973b4e617004248f442 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Shahid <jvshahid@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 15:08:31 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #516. Close WAL log/index files if they aren't needed
 anymore

---
 CHANGELOG.md   | 9 +++++++--
 src/wal/wal.go | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c5223a0c7dc..c51b8122be1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+## v0.6.3 [unreleased]
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- [Issue #516](https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/issues/516). Close WAL log/index files when they aren't being used
+
 ## v0.6.2 [2014-05-09]
 
 ### Bugfixes
@@ -16,7 +22,7 @@
 - [Issue #501](https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/issues/501). Writes with invalid payload should be rejected
 - [Issue #507](https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/issues/507). New cluster admin passwords don't propagate properly to other nodes in a cluster
 - [Issue #508](https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/issues/508). Don't replay WAL entries for servers with no shards
-- [Issue #464](https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/issues/464). Admin UI shouldn't draw graphs for string columns 
+- [Issue #464](https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/issues/464). Admin UI shouldn't draw graphs for string columns
 - [Issue #480](https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/issues/480). Large values on the y-axis get cut off
 
 ## v0.6.0 [2014-05-02]
@@ -487,4 +493,3 @@
 ## v0.0.1 [2013-10-22]
 
   * Initial Release
-
diff --git a/src/wal/wal.go b/src/wal/wal.go
index 84efd299578..9ff5a77e0b1 100644
--- a/src/wal/wal.go
+++ b/src/wal/wal.go
@@ -504,6 +504,8 @@ func (self *WAL) rotateTheLogFile(nextRequestNumber uint32) (bool, error) {
 	if err := lastIndex.syncFile(); err != nil {
 		return false, err
 	}
+	lastLogFile.close()
+	lastIndex.close()
 	lastLogFile, err := self.createNewLog(nextRequestNumber + 1)
 	if err != nil {
 		return false, err