RE: SOLR4/lucene and JVM memory management

2013-03-24 Thread Toke Eskildsen
Spyros Lambrinidis [spy...@peopleperhour.com]: > Then we increased the JVM memory to 4GB and we see that gradually, JVM > starts to use as much as it can. It is now using 3GB out of the 4GB > allocated. That is to be expected. When the amount of garbage collections increases, the JVM might decide

SOLR4/lucene and JVM memory management

2013-03-24 Thread Spyros Lambrinidis
Hi, Does anyone know how solr4/lucene and the JVM, manages memory? We have the following case. We have a 15GB server running only SOLR4/Lucene and the JVM (no custom code) We had allocated 2GB of memory and the JVM was using 1.9MB. At some point something happened and we run out of memory. The