Having 2Gb physical memory on the box I would allocate -Xmx1024m to Java as a starting point.
The other thing you could do is try to trim your config to use less memory. Are you using many facets? String sorts? Wildcards? Fuzzy? Storing or returning more fields than needed? http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrPerformanceFactors#RAM_Usage_Considerations -- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com On 8. mars 2011, at 07.40, rajini maski wrote: > In order to increase the Java heap memory, I have only 2gb ram… so > my default memory configuration is --JvmMs 128 --JvmMx 512 . I have the > single solr data index upto 6gb. Now if I am trying to fire a search very > often on this data index, after sometime I find an error as java heap space > out of memory error and search does not return results. What are the > possibilities to fix this error? (I cannot increase heap memory) How about > having another tomcat instance running (how this works? )or is it by > configuring shards? What is that might help me fix this search fail? > > > Rajani
