Yonik,

        We are on Solr 1.3. The total number of documents is  54173459. Let me 
know if need any additional info.

Thanks,
John

--
John Williams
System Administrator
37signals

On Mar 9, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Yonik Seeley wrote:

> Ahhh, FieldCache loading... what version of Solr are you using?
> It's interesting it would take that long to load too (and maxing out
> one CPU - doesn't look particularly IO bound).  How many documents are
> in this index?
> 
> -Yonik
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:33 PM, John Williams <j...@37signals.com> wrote:
>> Yonik,
>> 
>> I have provided an image below gives details on what is causing the blocked 
>> http thread. Is there any way to resolve this issue.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> John
>> 
>> --
>> John Williams
>> System Administrator
>> 37signals
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 9, 2010, at 10:41 AM, John Williams wrote:
>> 
>>> Yonik,
>>> 
>>> I got yourkit setup to profile the Tomcat instance and as you will see in 
>>> the graph below all of the   http threads are blocked (red) until around 
>>> 4:40. This is the point where the instance becomes responsive and CPU usage 
>>> drops. I have also ruled out GC being the issue by using the GC monitoring 
>>> in yourkit. Let me know your thoughts and if you have any questions.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your assistance.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> John
>>> 
>>> --
>>> John Williams
>>> System Administrator
>>> 37signals
>>> 
>>> <Screen shot 2010-03-09 at 10.35.15 AM.png>
>>> On Mar 8, 2010, at 5:28 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:07 PM, John Williams <j...@37signals.com> wrote:
>>>>> Yonik,
>>>>> 
>>>>> In all cases our "autowarmCount" is set to 0. Also, here is a link to our 
>>>>> config. http://pastebin.com/iUgruqPd
>>>> 
>>>> Weird... on a quick glance, I don't see anything in your config that
>>>> would cause work to be done on a commit.
>>>> I expected something like autowarming, or rebuilding a spellcheck
>>>> index, etc.  I assume this is happening even w/o any requests hitting
>>>> the server?
>>>> 
>>>> Could it be GC?  You could use -verbose:gc or jconsole to check if
>>>> this corresponds to a big GC (which could naturally hit on an index
>>>> change).  5 minutes is really excessive though, and I wouldn't expect
>>>> it on startup.
>>>> 
>>>> If it's not GC, perhaps the next step is to get some stack traces
>>>> during the spike (or use a profiler) to figure out where the time is
>>>> being spent.  And verify that the solrconfig.xml shown actually still
>>>> matches the one you provided.
>>>> 
>>>> -Yonik
>>>> http://www.lucidimagination.com
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> John
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> John Williams
>>>>> System Administrator
>>>>> 37signals
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 8, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Is this just autowarming?
>>>>>> Check your autowarmCount parameters in solrconfig.xml
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -Yonik
>>>>>> http://www.lucidimagination.com
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:37 PM, John Williams <j...@37signals.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Good afternoon.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> We have been experiencing an odd issue with one of our Solr nodes. Upon 
>>>>>>> startup or when bringing in a new index we get a CPU spike for 5 
>>>>>>> minutes or so. I have attached a graph of this spike. During this time 
>>>>>>> simple queries return without a problem but more complex queries do not 
>>>>>>> return. Here are some more details about the instance:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Index Size: ~16G
>>>>>>> Max Heap: 6144M
>>>>>>> GC Option: -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
>>>>>>> System Memory: 16G
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> We have a very similar instance to this one but with a much larger 
>>>>>>> index that we are not seeing this sort of issue.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Your help is greatly appreciated. Let me know if you need any 
>>>>>>> additional information.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> John
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> John Williams
>>>>>>> System Administrator
>>>>>>> 37signals
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 

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