I am using the Solr Suggester component in Solr 5.5 with a lot of address data. My Machine has allotted 20Gb RAM for solr and the machine has 32GB RAM in total.
I have an address book core with the following vitals - "numDocs"=153242074 "segmentCount"=34 "size"=30.29 GB My solrconfig.xml looks something like this - <searchComponent name="suggest" class="solr.SuggestComponent"> <lst name="suggester"> <str name="name">mySuggester1</str> <str name="lookupImpl">FuzzyLookupFactory</str> <str name="storeDir">suggester_fuzzy_dir</str> <!-- Substitute these for the two above for another "flavor" <str name="lookupImpl">AnalyzingInfixLookupFactory</str> <str name=?indexPath?>suggester_infix_dir</str> --> <str name="dictionaryImpl">DocumentDictionaryFactory</str> <str name="field">site_address</str> <str name="suggestAnalyzerFieldType">suggestType</str> <str name="payloadField">property_metadata</str> <str name="buildOnStartup">false</str> <str name="buildOnCommit">false</str> </lst> <lst name="suggester"> <str name="name">mySuggester2</str> <str name="lookupImpl">AnalyzingInfixLookupFactory</str> <str name="indexPath">suggester_infix_dir</str> <str name="dictionaryImpl">DocumentDictionaryFactory</str> <str name="field">site_address_other</str> <str name="suggestAnalyzerFieldType">suggestType</str> <str name="payloadField">property_metadata</str> <str name="buildOnStartup">false</str> <str name="buildOnCommit">false</str> </lst> </searchComponent> The handler is defined like so - <requestHandler name="/suggest" class="solr.SearchHandler" startup="lazy" > <lst name="defaults"> <str name="suggest">true</str> <str name="suggest.count">10</str> <str name="suggest.dictionary">mySuggester1</str> <str name="suggest.dictionary">mySuggester2</str> <str name="suggest.collate">false</str> <str name="echoParams">explicit</str> </lst> <arr name="components"> <str>suggest</str> </arr> </requestHandler> *Problem Statement* Every time I try to build the suggest index using the suggest.build=true url parameter, I end up with an OutOfMemory error. I have no clue how I can make this work with the current setup. Can anyone explain why this is happening? And how can I fix this issue? *StackOverflow:* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50802122/solr-suggest-component-and-outofmemory-error