On May 12, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Christopher Baird wrote: > We're running into an out of memory problem when sending a large file to our > SOLR server using the ContentStreamUpdateRequest. It appears that this > happens because when the request method of CommonsHttpSolrServer is called > (this is called even when using a StreamingUpdateSolrServer instance because > the ContentStreamUpdateRequest class is not an instance of UpdateRequest) an > InputStreamRequestEntity is used in the PostMethod buffers the content. The > buffering happens because the content length is not provided and thus > defaults to "CONTENT_LENGHT_AUTO" which instructs InputStreamRequestEntity > to buffer the entire content. > > > > Is there an existing work-around to this? > > > > If not, can anyone think of why I wouldn't want to update the code to pass > in the content-length and avoid the buffering (I don't want to walk down a > path to find out I really stepped in something).
I can't think of any reason not to put up a patch for it.
