well, things _are_ running, specifically the communications channels are looking for incoming messages and the like, generating garbage etc.
Try attaching jconsole to the process and hitting the GC button to force a garbage collection. As long as your memory gets to some level and drops back to that level after forcing GCs, you'll be fine. Best, Erick On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Betsey Benagh <betsey.ben...@stresearch.com> wrote: > X-posted from stack overflow... > > I'm running solr 6.0.0 in server mode. I have one core. I loaded about 2000 > documents in, and it was using about 54 MB of memory. No problem. Nobody was > issuing queries or doing anything else, but over the course of about 4 hours, > the memory usage had tripled to 152 MB. I shut solr down and restarted it, > and saw the memory usage back at 54 MB. Again, with no queries or anything > being executed against the core, the memory usage is creeping up - after 17 > minutes, it was up to 60 MB. I've looked at the documentation for how to > limit memory usage, but I want to understand why it's creeping up when > nothing is happening, lest it run out of memory when I limit the usage. The > machine is running CentOS 6.6, if that matters, with Java 1.8.0_65. > > Thanks! >