On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Jonathan Ariel <ionat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi to all! > Lately my solr servers seem to stop responding once in a while. I'm using > solr 1.3. > Of course I'm having more traffic on the servers. > So I logged the Garbage Collection activity to check if it's because of > that. It seems like 11% of the time the application runs, it is stopped > because of GC. And some times the GC takes up to 10 seconds! > Is is normal? My instances run on a 16GB RAM, Dual Quad Core Intel Xeon > servers. My index is around 10GB and I'm giving to the instances 10GB of > RAM.
Bigger heaps lead to bigger GC pauses in general. Do you mean that you are giving the JVM a 10GB heap? Were you getting OOM exceptions with a smaller heap? -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com
