Thanks yonik .. will consider Jconsole On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Yonik Seeley <yo...@lucidimagination.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:07 AM, bharath venkatesh > <bharathv6.proj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > how much ram would be good enough for the Solr JVM to run comfortably. > > It really depends on how much stuff is cached, what fields you facet > and sort on, etc. > > It can be easier to measure than to try and calculate it. > Run jconsole to see the memory use, do a whole bunch of queries that > do all the faceting, sorting, and function queries you will do in > production. Then invoke GC a few times in rapid succession via > jconsole and see how much memory is actually used. Double that to > account for a new index searcher being opened while the current one is > still open (that's just the worst case for Solr 1.4... the average > reopen case is better since many segments can be shared). Add a > little more for safety. > > -Yonik > http://www.lucidimagination.com >