Just to add one more point that one external Zookeeper instance is also
running on this particular machine.

Regards,
Modassar

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Modassar Ather <modather1...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Toke,
> Thanks for your response. My comments in-line.
>
> That is 12 machines, running a shard each?
> No! This is a single big machine with 12 shards on it.
>
> What is the total amount of physical memory on each machine?
> Around 370 gb on the single machine.
>
> Well, se* probably expands to a great deal of documents, but a huge bump
> in memory utilization and 3 minutes+ sounds strange.
>
> - What are your normal query times?
> Few simple queries are returned with in a couple of seconds. But the more
> complex queries with proximity and wild cards have taken more than 3-4
> minutes and some times some queries have timed out too where time out is
> set to 5 minutes.
> - How many hits do you get from 'network se*'?
> More than a million records.
> - How many results do you return (the rows-parameter)?
> It is the default one 10. Grouping is enabled on a field.
> - If you issue a query without wildcards, but with approximately the
> same amount of hits as 'network se*', how long does it take?
> A query resulting in around half a million record return within a couple
> of seconds.
>
> That is strange, yes. Have you checked the logs to see if something
> unexpected is going on while you test?
> Have not seen anything particularly. Will try to check again.
>
> If you are using spinning drives and only have 32GB of RAM in total in
> each machine, you are probably struggling just to keep things running.
> As mentioned above this is a big machine with 370+ gb of RAM and Solr (12
> nodes total) is assigned 336 GB. The rest is still a good for other system
> activities.
>
> Thanks,
> Modassar
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Toke Eskildsen <t...@statsbiblioteket.dk>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 12:00 +0530, Modassar Ather wrote:
>> > I have a setup of 12 shard cluster started with 28gb memory each on a
>> > single server. There are no replica. The size of index is around 90gb on
>> > each shard. The Solr version is 5.2.1.
>>
>> That is 12 machines, running a shard each?
>>
>> What is the total amount of physical memory on each machine?
>>
>> > When I query "network se*", the memory utilization goes upto 24-26 gb
>> and
>> > the query takes around 3+ minutes to execute. Also the CPU utilization
>> goes
>> > upto 400% in few of the nodes.
>>
>> Well, se* probably expands to a great deal of documents, but a huge bump
>> in memory utilization and 3 minutes+ sounds strange.
>>
>> - What are your normal query times?
>> - How many hits do you get from 'network se*'?
>> - How many results do you return (the rows-parameter)?
>> - If you issue a query without wildcards, but with approximately the
>> same amount of hits as 'network se*', how long does it take?
>>
>> > Why the CPU utilization is so high and more than one core is used.
>> > As far as I understand querying is single threaded.
>>
>> That is strange, yes. Have you checked the logs to see if something
>> unexpected is going on while you test?
>>
>> > How can I disable replication(as it is implicitly enabled) permanently
>> as
>> > in our case we are not using it but can see warnings related to leader
>> > election?
>>
>> If you are using spinning drives and only have 32GB of RAM in total in
>> each machine, you are probably struggling just to keep things running.
>>
>>
>> - Toke Eskildsen, State and University Library, Denmark
>>
>>
>>
>

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