Try not committing so often (perhaps until you are done).
Don't use post.sh, or modify it to remove the commit.


OK, I modified it to not commit after and I also realized I had SOLR-126 (autocommit) on, which I disabled. Is there a rule of thumb on when to commit / optimize?


Part of the problem might be repeatedly inserting the same doc over
and over again-- that is an odd pattern of deletes, which might be
triggering a bad performance case on the lucene or solr side (I'm
assuming the doc has a unique key).

Could be, but the same issue occurs on 400K unique docs. I made the post.sh test case to see what exactly the issue is.


I've discovered something wonky with commits and open files...

If either autoCommit is on, or I commit after every add, the number of open file descriptors from Lucene goes up way high and does not go back down. I just ran

# lsof | grep solr | wc -l

after adding 1000 docs and got 125265 open fdescs. If I stop adding docs this count does not go down -- it does not go down until I restart solr. This would be the cause of my too many files open problem. Turning off autocommit / not commiting after every add keeps this count steady at 100-200. The files are all of type:

java 32254 bwhitman 3654r REG 8,1 12 15417767 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_86u.nrm (deleted) java 32254 bwhitman 3655r REG 8,1 42024 15417813 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_86t.fdt (deleted) java 32254 bwhitman 3656r REG 8,1 16 15417814 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_86t.fdx (deleted) java 32254 bwhitman 3657r REG 8,1 27420 15417817 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_86t.tis (deleted) java 32254 bwhitman 3658r REG 8,1 368 15417818 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_86t.tii (deleted) java 32254 bwhitman 3659r REG 8,1 7652 15417815 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_86t.frq (deleted) java 32254 bwhitman 3660r REG 8,1 24860 15417816 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_86t.prx (deleted) java 32254 bwhitman 3661r REG 8,1 20 15417819 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_86t.nrm (deleted) java 32254 bwhitman 3662r REG 8,1 20 15417819 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_86t.nrm (deleted) java 32254 bwhitman 3663r REG 8,1 20 15417819 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_86t.nrm (deleted) java 32254 bwhitman 3664r REG 8,1 20 15417819 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_86t.nrm (deleted) java 32254 bwhitman 3665r REG 8,1 20 15417819 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_86t.nrm (deleted) java 32254 bwhitman 3666r REG 8,1 20 15417819 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_86t.nrm (deleted) java 32254 bwhitman 3667r REG 8,1 20 15417819 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_86t.nrm (deleted) java 32254 bwhitman 3668r REG 8,1 20 15417819 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_86t.nrm (deleted) java 32254 bwhitman 3669r REG 8,1 210120000 15417669 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_85y.fdt java 32254 bwhitman 3670r REG 8,1 80000 15417670 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_85y.fdx java 32254 bwhitman 3671r REG 8,1 46736 15417673 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_85y.tis java 32254 bwhitman 3672r REG 8,1 503 15417674 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_85y.tii java 32254 bwhitman 3673r REG 8,1 43936224 15417671 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_85y.frq java 32254 bwhitman 3674r REG 8,1 124300000 15417672 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_85y.prx java 32254 bwhitman 3675r REG 8,1 80004 15417675 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_85y.nrm java 32254 bwhitman 3676r REG 8,1 80004 15417675 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_85y.nrm java 32254 bwhitman 3677r REG 8,1 80004 15417675 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_85y.nrm java 32254 bwhitman 3678r REG 8,1 80004 15417675 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_85y.nrm java 32254 bwhitman 3679r REG 8,1 80004 15417675 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_85y.nrm java 32254 bwhitman 3680r REG 8,1 80004 15417675 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_85y.nrm java 32254 bwhitman 3681r REG 8,1 80004 15417675 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_85y.nrm java 32254 bwhitman 3682r REG 8,1 80004 15417675 /home/bwhitman/solr/working/data/index/_85y.nrm


Bug or feature?

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