Actually the reason I did not use the solr script was that I didn't really get how to make a window service out of it from nssm.exe. I tried doing a .bat that called solr with start -p 8983 but seems it just loops my command rather then run it.
Thanks for the help / Karl On 11 March 2015 at 23:08, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, the new way will be the only way eventually, so either you learn > the old way then switch or learn it now ;)... > > But if you insist you could start with a heap size of 4G like this: > > java -Xmx4G -Xms4G -jar start.jar > > Best, > Erick > > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Karl Kildén <karl.kil...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Thanks! > > > > I am using the old way and I see no reason to switch really? > > > > cheers > > > > On 11 March 2015 at 20:18, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > > > >> On 3/11/2015 12:25 PM, Karl Kildén wrote: > >> > I am a solr beginner. Anyone knows how solr 5.0 determines the max > heap > >> > size? I can't find it anywhere. > >> > > >> > Also, where whould you activate jmx? Would like to be able to use > >> visualvm > >> > in the future I imagine. > >> > > >> > I have a custom nssm thing going that installs it as a window service > >> that > >> > simply calls java -jar start.jar > >> > >> The default heap size is 512m. This is hardcoded in the bin/solr > >> script. You can override that with the -m parameter. > >> > >> If you are not using the bin/solr script and are instead doing the old > >> "java -jar start.jar" startup, the default heap size is determined by > >> the version of Java you are running. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Shawn > >> > >> >
