Re: Experiencing lots of full GC runs

2010-11-18 Thread Lance Norskog
Does it need 10G to run? Have you cycled it down to, say, 4-5G as a test? Large memory sizes can just cause more garbage collection. What is the disk activity when this happens? Do you have paging turned on? I generally turn it off- having things go into page-thrash mode is lame. How many searche

Re: Experiencing lots of full GC runs

2010-11-18 Thread Simon Wistow
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:01:09AM +, me said: > I'm baffled - I've had way bigger indexes than this before with no > performance problems. At first it was the frequent updates but the fact > that it happens even when the indexer isn't running seems to put paid to > that. More information:

Experiencing lots of full GC runs

2010-11-18 Thread Simon Wistow
We currently have a 30G index with 73M of .tii files running on a machine with 4 Intel 2.27GHz Xeons with 15G of memory. About once a second a process indexes ~10-20 smallish documents using the XML Update Handler. A commit happens after every update. However we see this behaviour even if the i