This smells like a garbage collection issue. Here's an article from about a year ago by Mark Miller that might help:
http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2009/09/19/java-garbage-collection-boot-camp-draft/ <http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2009/09/19/java-garbage-collection-boot-camp-draft/>Does the query #ever# come back or do you get impatient and kill it? Also, what version of Solr are you using? Java? What op system? If it is a garbage collection issue, the more details you can provide the better... Best Erick On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Xavier Schepler < xavier.schep...@sciences-po.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > We are in a beta testing phase, with several users a day. > > After several days of running well, the solr server stopped responding to > requests that require a lot of processing time, like this one : > > wt=json&omitHeader=true&q=qiAndMSwFR%3A%28transport%29&q.op=AND&start=0&rows=5&fl=id,domainId,solrLangCode,ddiFileId,studyDescriptionId,studyYearAndDescriptionId,nesstarServerId,studyNesstarId,variableId,questionId,variableNesstarId,concept,studyTitle,studyQuestionCount,hasMultipleItems,variableName,hasQuestionnaire,questionnaireUrl,studyDescriptionUrl,universe,notes,preQuestionText,postQuestionText,interviewerInstructions,questionPosition,vlFR,qFR,iFR,mFR,vlEN,qEN,iEN,mEN,&sort=score%20desc&fq=solrLangCode%3AFR&facet=true&facet.field=%7B%21ex%3DstudySerieIds%2Cdecades%2CstudyIds%2CqueryFilters%2CconceptIds%2CdomainIds%7DdomainId&facet.field=%7B%21ex%3DstudySerieIds%2Cdecades%2CstudyIds%2CqueryFilters%2CconceptIds%2CdomainIds%7DstudyDecade&facet.field=%7B%21ex%3DstudySerieIds%2Cdecades%2CstudyIds%2CqueryFilters%2CconceptIds%2CdomainIds%7DstudySerieId&facet.field=%7B%21ex%3DstudySerieIds%2Cdecades%2CstudyIds%2CqueryFilters%2CconceptIds%2CdomainIds%7DstudyYearAndDescriptionId&facet.sort=count&f.studyDecade.facet.sort=lex&spellcheck=true&spellcheck.count=10&spellcheck.dictionary=qiAndMFR&spellcheck.q=transport&hl=on&hl.fl=qSwFR,iHLSwFR,mHLSwFR&hl.fragsize=0&hl.snippets=10000&hl.usePhraseHighlighter=true&hl.highlightMultiTerm=true&hl.simple.pre=%3Cb%3E&hl.simple.post=%3C%2Fb%3E&hl.mergeContiguous=false > > > It involves highlighting on a multivalued field with more than 600 short > values inside. Usually, it takes 200 or 300 ms. > > I'm using Solr within Tomcat. > After restarting Tomcat all went fine again. > > I'm trying to understand why I had to restart tomcat and what should I do > to have it working 7/7 24/24. > > > Xavier > >
