On 1/1/2015 12:10 PM, Shawn Heisey wrote: > I've been working with Oracle employees to find better GC tuning > options. The results are good enough to share with the community: > > https://wiki.apache.org/solr/ShawnHeisey#GC_Tuning > > With the latest Java 7 or Java 8 version, and a couple of tuning > options, G1GC has grown up enough to be a viable choice. Two of the > settings on that list were critical for making the performance > acceptable with my testing: ParallelRefProcEnabled and G1HeapRegionSize. > > I've included some notes on the wiki about how you can size the G1 heap > regions appropriately for your own index.
A note was just recently added to the Lucene wiki, saying that the G1 collector should never be used with Lucene, because there are bugs that might cause index corruption. Solr uses Lucene, so this would apply. https://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/JavaBugs#Oracle_Java_.2F_Sun_Java_.2F_OpenJDK_Bugs I have never had any problems with it, but perhaps I spoke too soon when recommending G1. Does anyone else have anything to add? Thanks, Shawn
