This doesn't work in SolrCloud, but it really sounds like "lots of cores" which is designed to keep the most recent N cores loaded and auto-unload older ones, see: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/LotsOfCores
Best, Erick On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Brian Hurt <bhur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there are an easy way for a client to tell Solr to close or release the > IndexSearcher and/or IndexWriter for a core? > > I have a use case where we're creating a lot of cores with not that many > documents per zone (a few hundred to maybe 10's of thousands). Writes come > in batches, and reads also tend to be bursty, if less so than the writes. > > And we're having problems with ram usage on the server. Poking around a > heap dump, the problem is that every IndexSearcher or IndexWriter being > opened is taking up large amounts of memory. > > I've looked at the unload call, and while it is unclear, it seems like it > deletes the data on disk as well. I don't want to delete the data on disk, > I just want to unload the searcher and writer, and free up the memory. > > So I'm wondering if there is a call I can make when I know or suspect that > the core isn't going to be used in the near future to release these objects > and return the memory? Or a configuration option I can set to do so after, > say, being idle for 5 seconds? It's OK for there to be a performance hit > the first time I reopen the core. > > Thanks, > > Brian
