Re: Memory Impact of a New Core

2013-04-23 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
The overhead of just opening a core is insignificant relatively to using it so, unless you are worried about hitting the max number of open files limit, it seems unimportant. Otis Solr & ElasticSearch Support http://sematext.com/ On Apr 23, 2013 7:46 AM, "Jérôme Étévé" wrote: > Thanks! > > Yeah

Re: Memory Impact of a New Core

2013-04-23 Thread Jérôme Étévé
Thanks! Yeah I know about the caching/commit things My question is more about the impact of a "Pure" creation of a Solr core, indepently of its "usage" memory requirements (like caches and stuff). >From the experiments I did using JMX, it's not measurable, but I might be wrong. On 23 April 20

Re: Memory Impact of a New Core

2013-04-23 Thread Guido Medina
I'm not an expert, but at some extent I think it will come down to few factors: * How much data is been cached per core. * If memory is an issue and still you want performance, I/O with low cache could be an issue (SSDs?) * Soft commits which implies open searchers per soft commit (and per