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Dawid Weiss commented on LUCENE-10677:
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String.intern is evil for many reasons and your use case is indeed, ahem,
atypical. I don't think adding "a few known strings" is an elegant solution
since hacks like this one tend to become stale quickly... You could try the
JVM's UseStringDeduplication option - an ugly workaround but easy one - but I
think you'll run into other problems soon enough with this number of concurrent
indices/segments/fields. If you have to live with this then it's likely that
you'll have to follow Rob's advice sooner or later.
> Duplicate strings in FieldInfo#attributes contribute significantly to heap
> usage at scale
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> Key: LUCENE-10677
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-10677
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: core/codecs
> Affects Versions: 9.3
> Reporter: Armin Braun
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: heap, scalability
> Attachments: lucene_duplicate_fields.png
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> This has the same origin as issue LUCENE-10676 . Running a single process
> with thousands of fields across many indexes will lead to a lot of duplicate
> strings retained as keys and values in the `attributes` map. This can amount
> to GBs of heap for thousands of fields across a few thousand segments. The
> strings in the below heap dump analysis account for more than half (roughly
> 2/3 and the field names are somewhat unusually long in this example) the
> duplicate strings from `FieldInfo` instances.
> If we could deduplicate theses obvious known strings when reading `FieldInfo`
> we could save GBs of heap for use cases like this.
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