: What I'm wondering is, what should one do to fix this issue when it : happens. Is there a way to recover? after the WARN appears.
It's just a warning that you have a sub-optimal situation from a performance standpoint -- either committing too fast, or warming too much. It's not a failure, and Solr will continue to serve queries and process updates -- but meanwhile it's detected that the situation it's in involves wasted CPU/RAM. : In my observation, this WARN comes when I hit frequent hard commits or : hit re-load config. I'm not planning on to hit frequent hard commits, : however sometimes accidently it happens. And when it happens the : collection crashes without a recovery. If you're seeing a crash, then that's a distinct problem from the WARN -- it might be related tothe warning, but it's not identical -- Solr doesn't always (or even normally) crash in the "Overlapping onDeckSearchers" sitaution So if you are seeing crashes, please give us more detials about these crashes: namely more details about everything you are seeing in your logs (on all the nodes, even if only one node is crashing) https://wiki.apache.org/solr/UsingMailingLists -Hoss http://www.lucidworks.com/