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 >> >>
