How many boxes running your index? If it is just one, maybe distributing your index will get you a better performance during garbage collection.
2009/1/21 wojtekpia <wojte...@hotmail.com> > > I'm intermittently experiencing severe performance drops due to Java > garbage > collection. I'm allocating a lot of RAM to my Java process (27GB of the > 32GB > physically available). Under heavy load, the performance drops > approximately > every 10 minutes, and the drop lasts for 30-40 seconds. This coincides with > the size of the old generation heap dropping from ~27GB to ~6GB. > > Is there a way to reduce the impact of garbage collection? A couple ideas > we've come up with (but haven't tried yet) are: increasing the minimum heap > size, more frequent (but hopefully less costly) garbage collection. > > Thanks, > > Wojtek > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Performance-%22dead-zone%22-due-to-garbage-collection-tp21588427p21588427.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- Alexander Ramos Jardim
