What Garbage Collection parameters is the JVM using ? the memory will not always be freed immediately after an event like unloading a core or starting a new searcher.
2010/2/8 Tim Terlegård <tim.terleg...@gmail.com> > To me it doesn't look like unloading a Solr Core frees the memory that > the core has used. Is this how it should be? > > I have a big index with 50 million documents. After loading a core it > takes 300 MB RAM. After a query with a couple of sort fields Solr > takes about 8 GB RAM. Then I unload (CoreAdminRequest.unloadCore) the > core. The core is not shown in /solr/ anymore. Solr still takes 8 GB > RAM. Creating new cores is super slow because I have hardly any memory > left. Do I need to free the memory explicitly somehow? > > /Tim >