RE: SOLR 4.2.1 - High Resident Memory Usage

2013-08-28 Thread vsilgalis
So we actually 3 of the 6 machines automatically restart the SOLR service as memory pressure was too high, 2 were by SIGABRT and one was java OOMkiller. I dropped a pmap on one of the solr services before it died. Basically i need to figure out what the other direct memory references are outside

RE: SOLR 4.2.1 - High Resident Memory Usage

2013-08-28 Thread Markus Jelsma
Hi - it's certainly not a rule of thumb but usually RES always grows higher than Xmx so keep an eye on it. -Original message- > From:vsilgalis > Sent: Wednesday 28th August 2013 2:53 > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: SOLR 4.2.1 - High Resident Memory

Re: SOLR 4.2.1 - High Resident Memory Usage

2013-08-27 Thread vsilgalis
That doesn't seem to be a problem. Markus, are you saying that I should plan on resident memory being at least double my heap size? I haven't run into issues around this before but then again I don't know everything. Is this a rule of

RE: SOLR 4.2.1 - High Resident Memory Usage

2013-08-27 Thread Markus Jelsma
Hi -Original message- > From:Shawn Heisey > Sent: Wednesday 28th August 2013 0:50 > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: SOLR 4.2.1 - High Resident Memory Usage > > On 8/27/2013 4:17 PM, Erick Erickson wrote: > > Ok, this whole topic usually gives me

Re: SOLR 4.2.1 - High Resident Memory Usage

2013-08-27 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 8/27/2013 4:48 PM, vsilgalis wrote: dash: JVM section: ps output: Erick that may be one of

Re: SOLR 4.2.1 - High Resident Memory Usage

2013-08-27 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 8/27/2013 4:17 PM, Erick Erickson wrote: Ok, this whole topic usually gives me heartburn. So I'll just point out an interesting blog on this from Mike McCandless: http://blog.mikemccandless.com/2011/04/just-say-no-to-swapping.html At least tuning swappiness to 0 will tell you whether it's rea

Re: SOLR 4.2.1 - High Resident Memory Usage

2013-08-27 Thread vsilgalis
dash: JVM section: ps output: Erick that may be one of the ways I approach this, I just want

Re: SOLR 4.2.1 - High Resident Memory Usage

2013-08-27 Thread Erick Erickson
Ok, this whole topic usually gives me heartburn. So I'll just point out an interesting blog on this from Mike McCandless: http://blog.mikemccandless.com/2011/04/just-say-no-to-swapping.html At least tuning swappiness to 0 will tell you whether it's real or phantom. Of course I'd be trying it on a

Re: SOLR 4.2.1 - High Resident Memory Usage

2013-08-27 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 8/27/2013 3:32 PM, vsilgalis wrote: thanks for the quick reply. I made to rule out what I could around how Linux is handling this stuff. Yes I'm using the default swappiness setting of 60, but at this point it looks like the machine is swapping now because of low memory. Here is the vmstat a

Re: SOLR 4.2.1 - High Resident Memory Usage

2013-08-27 Thread vsilgalis
thanks for the quick reply. I made to rule out what I could around how Linux is handling this stuff. Yes I'm using the default swappiness setting of 60, but at this point it looks like the machine is swapping now because of low memory. Here is the vmstat and free -m results:

Re: SOLR 4.2.1 - High Resident Memory Usage

2013-08-27 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 8/27/2013 11:56 AM, vsilgalis wrote: We have a 2 shard SOLRCloud implementation with 6 servers in production. We have allocated 24GB to each server and are using JVM max memory settings of -Xmx14336 on each of the servers. We are using the same embedded jetty that SOLR comes with. The JVM s

SOLR 4.2.1 - High Resident Memory Usage

2013-08-27 Thread vsilgalis
We have a 2 shard SOLRCloud implementation with 6 servers in production. We have allocated 24GB to each server and are using JVM max memory settings of -Xmx14336 on each of the servers. We are using the same embedded jetty that SOLR comes with. The JVM side of things looks like what I'd expect f