Look for the HotSpot dump files that Sun's Java leaves on disk when it dies. I think their names start with "hs". Luckily, I don't have any of them handy to tell you the exact name pattern.
Otis -- Sematext is hiring -- http://sematext.com/about/jobs.html?mls Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Katta, Hadoop, HBase, UIMA, NLP, NER, IR ----- Original Message ---- > From: Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Sun, November 15, 2009 8:15:47 PM > Subject: Re: solr stops running periodically > > Have you looked in other logs, like your syslogs? I've never seen > Solr/Tomcat > just disappear w/o so much as a blip. I'd think if a process just died from > an > error condition there would be some note of it somewhere. I'd try to find > some > other events taking place at that time which might give a hint. > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 1:45 PM, athir nuaimi wrote: > > >> We have 4 machines running solr. On one of the machines, every 2-3 days > >> solr > stops running. By that I mean that the java/tomcat process just disappears. > If > I look at the catalina logs, I see normal log entries and then nothing. > There > is no shutdown messages like you would normally see if you sent a SIGTERM to > the > process. > >> > >> Obviously this is a problem. I''m new to solr/java so if there are more > diagnostic things I can do I'd appreciate any tips/advice. > >> > >> thanks in advance > >> Athir > >