On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Dallan Quass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for the newbie question. When running solr under tomcat I notice that > the amount of memory tomcat uses increases over time until it reaches the > maximum limit set (with the Xms and Xmx switches) for the jvm. > > Is it better to allocate give all available physical memory to the jvm, or > to allocate enough so that solr doesn't run out of memory and let the OS use > the rest for disk buffers?
The latter... let the OS have as much as you can for disk buffers. -Yonik
