Re: drastic performance decrease with 20 cores

2011-09-26 Thread Toke Eskildsen
On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 02:43 +0200, Bictor Man wrote: > thanks for your replies. indeed the filesystem caching seems to be the > difference. sadly I can't add more memory and the 6GB/20core combination > doesn't work. so I'll just try to tweak it as much as I can. A (better) alternative to more mem

Re: drastic performance decrease with 20 cores

2011-09-26 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ > >From: François Schiettecatte >To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 12:43 PM >Subject: Re: drastic performance decrease with 20 cores > >You have n

Re: drastic performance decrease with 20 cores

2011-09-26 Thread Bictor Man
Hi guys, thanks for your replies. indeed the filesystem caching seems to be the difference. sadly I can't add more memory and the 6GB/20core combination doesn't work. so I'll just try to tweak it as much as I can. thanks a lot. 2011/9/26 François Schiettecatte > You have not said how big your

Re: drastic performance decrease with 20 cores

2011-09-26 Thread François Schiettecatte
You have not said how big your index is but I suspect that allocating 13GB for your 20 cores is starving the OS of memory for caching file data. Have you tried 6GB with 20 cores? I suspect you will see the same performance as 6GB & 10 cores. Generally it is better to allocate just enough memory

Re: drastic performance decrease with 20 cores

2011-09-26 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 9/26/2011 9:33 AM, Bictor Man wrote: Hi everyone, Sorry if this issue has been discussed before, but I'm new to the list. I have a solr (3.4) instance running with 20 cores (around 4 million docs each). The instance has allocated 13GB in a 16GB RAM server. If I run several sets of queries se

drastic performance decrease with 20 cores

2011-09-26 Thread Bictor Man
Hi everyone, Sorry if this issue has been discussed before, but I'm new to the list. I have a solr (3.4) instance running with 20 cores (around 4 million docs each). The instance has allocated 13GB in a 16GB RAM server. If I run several sets of queries sequentially in each of the cores, the I/O a

drastic performance decrease with 20 cores

2011-09-26 Thread Bictor Man
Hi everyone, Sorry if this issue has been discussed before, but I'm new to the list. I have a solr (3.4) instance running with 20 cores (around 4 million docs each). The instance has allocated 13GB in a 16GB RAM server. If I run several sets of queries sequentially in each of the cores, the I/O a