Re: Inconsistent slave performance after optimize

2010-10-28 Thread Mason Hale
y, October 27, 2010 9:03 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Inconsistent slave performance after optimize > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Ken Krugler >wrote: > > > Normally I'd say like you were getting into swap hell, but based on your > >

RE: Inconsistent slave performance after optimize

2010-10-27 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
what was causing the slowdown, but the JVM still confuses me). From: Mason Hale [masonh...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 9:03 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Inconsistent slave performance after optimize On Wed, Oct 27, 2010

Re: Inconsistent slave performance after optimize

2010-10-27 Thread Mason Hale
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Ken Krugler wrote: > Normally I'd say like you were getting into swap hell, but based on your > settings you only have 5GB of JVM space being used, on a 16GB box. > > Just to confirm, nothing else is using lots of memory, right? And the "top" > command isn't showin

Re: Inconsistent slave performance after optimize

2010-10-27 Thread Ken Krugler
Normally I'd say like you were getting into swap hell, but based on your settings you only have 5GB of JVM space being used, on a 16GB box. Just to confirm, nothing else is using lots of memory, right? And the "top" command isn't showing any swap usage, right? When you encounter very slow s

RE: Inconsistent slave performance after optimize

2010-10-27 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
't think there's much to be gained by leaving a window, and by setting them the same the JVM won't spend any time increasing it's heap size. From: Mason Hale [masonh...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 6:33 PM To: solr-u

Re: Inconsistent slave performance after optimize

2010-10-27 Thread Mason Hale
Hi Lance -- Thanks for the reply. > Did you restart all of these slave servers? That would help. We discovered independently that restarting the slave nodes resulted in dramatically improved performance (e.g. from 2.0 sec average response to 0.25 sec average). Can you please explain why this is

Re: Inconsistent slave performance after optimize

2010-10-27 Thread Lance Norskog
Did you restart all of these slave servers? That would help. What garbage collection options do you use? Which release of Solr? How many Searchers are there in admin/stats.jsp? Searchers hold open all kinds of memory. They are supposed to cycle out. These are standard questions, but- what you are