Java 9 hasn't been proven at this point, so I'd be reluctant to recommend it under any circumstances. Java 11 is probably going to be the next recommended version, but there are some outstanding issues.
Lots of clients I know are using G1 at this point. Best, Erick On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 3:05 PM Walter Underwood <wun...@wunderwood.org> wrote: > > We’ve been running 1.8.0_131 with G1 in prod for well over a year, on 30-50 > hosts. > > We actually got a SIGSEGV in a JVM two days ago, but that has been the only > error. AWS had scheduled a reboot for that some host by tomorrow, so it might > have been a hardware issue. > > wunder > Walter Underwood > wun...@wunderwood.org > http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > > > On Oct 24, 2018, at 2:59 PM, Brian Lininger <brian.linin...@veeva.com> > > wrote: > > > > Hey Solr Users, > > I'm curious what the state of Solr/Lucene is with the G1 garbage > > collector..... specifically Solr 6.6.5 & 7.5.0 and JDK8/9? I know that > > there have been issues previously that caused Lucene's test suites to > > randomly fail with G1, but all of the known issues are resolved as far as I > > can tell. Reading thru email archive it seems that plenty of people have > > been using G1 in production for a year or two without issue, has anyone > > tried G1 recently and run into any issues? > > Thanks, > > Brian Lininger >
