Heap usage can spike after a commit. Existing caches are still in use and new caches are being generated and/or auto warmed. Can you confirm this is the case?
On Friday 28 January 2011 00:34:42 Simon Wistow wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 01:28:16PM +0100, Markus Jelsma said: > > Are you sure you need CMS incremental mode? It's only adviced when > > running on a machine with one or two processors. If you have more you > > should consider disabling the incremental flags. > > I'll test agin but we added those to get better performance - not much > but there did seem to be an improvement. > > The problem seems to not be in average use but that occasionally there's > huge spike in load (there doesn't seem to be a particular "killer > query") and Solr just never recovers. > > Thanks, > > Simon -- Markus Jelsma - CTO - Openindex http://www.linkedin.com/in/markus17 050-8536620 / 06-50258350