Yup, should definitely be doable with the small number of docs and traffic. - comment out the query cache in solrconfig.xml - reduce the size of the document cache to maybe 50 entries or so - reduce maxBufferedDocs to 10 to limit indexing memory (a better option will be available soon in Solr 1.3-dev) - if you are using faceting, try setting facet.enum.cache.minDf=10000 to avoid using the filterCache altogether
-Yonik On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Micah Wedemeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've used Solr a little at work where we have our own hardware with all > the memory we want. However, I would also like to use Solr on a > small-ish website that I run off of a VPS with 512MB of RAM. I tried > this (untuned) for a while, and Tomcat/Solr would just grab up all my > memory until the server slowed to a crawl. > > Performance really isn't a huge factor. There are probably around 5000 > documents with an average size of 1-2k per document. A document (wiki > page) is re-indexed roughly every time it is saved, and with our > current traffic, that's probably around 5/minute at our busiest times. > Plus, the search feature isn't all that prominent, meaning that actual > searches occur fairly rarely, perhaps 1/minute at peak. > > So, my basic question is: Can I constrain and constrict Solr in order > to run it in a tiny slice of memory, say 64-128MB? What will happen if > I set the -xmx option to 64M? I saw some other posts about OutOfMemory > errors, but I couldn't get a clear idea about how well Solr recovered > from them. > Also, is there a way to turn off (or severely limit) caching and > buffering? What happens if I set maxBufferedDocs to 1 or 10? Can I go > through and set the filter, query, and document caches to some small > number like 1 or 10? > > Finally, am I trying to do something that's just plain stupid? I like > Solr and I'd like to try some neat stuff with facets on my site, but > Sphinx ( http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ ) is another option that I know > people have gotten to work with a small memory footprint. I just don't > know Sphinx that well. > > Thanks in advance, > Micah > >
