Unix tools won't show heap usage statistics. Please use tools that come with your JVM such as jps, jtop, jstat or setup monitoring over JMX to get a good picture.
All aside, RAM is most likely not your problem. > i run an full-import via DIH, 35 Million Documents, i dont restart solr. my > cronjob start automaticly an delta. if i restart solr, delta obtain in ~10 > seconds ... > > > "free -m" show me how many RAM is beeing used and with "top". the server is > only for solr, so no other processes are using my RAM. > > ----- > ------------------------------- System > ---------------------------------------- > > One Server, 12 GB RAM, 2 Solr Instances, 7 Cores, > 1 Core with 31 Million Documents other Cores < 100.000 > > - Solr1 for Search-Requests - commit every Minute - 5GB Xmx > - Solr2 for Update-Request - delta every Minute - 4GB Xmx > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/how-to-start-GarbageCollector-tp2748080 > p2748134.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.