Can you provide a stack trace for the OOM eexception ? On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Bohnsack, Sven <sven.bohns...@shopping24.de>wrote:
> Hi all, > > we're using solr 1.4 and external file field ([1]) for sorting our > searchresults. We have about 40.000 Terms, for which we use this sorting > option. > Currently we're running into massive OutOfMemory-Problems and were not > pretty sure, what's the matter. It seems that the garbage collector stops > working or some processes are going wild. However, solr starts to allocate > more and more RAM until we experience this OutOfMemory-Exception. > > > We noticed the following: > > For some terms one could see in the solr log that there appear some > java.io.FileNotFoundExceptions, when solr tries to load an external file for > a term for which there is not such a file, e.g. solr tries to load the > external score file for "trousers" but there ist none in the > /solr/data-Folder. > > Question: is it possible, that those exceptions are responsible for the > OutOfMemory-Problem or could it be due to the large(?) number of 40k terms > for which we want to sort the result via external file field? > > I'm looking forward for your answers, suggestions and ideas :) > > > Regards > Sven > > > [1]: > http://lucene.apache.org/solr/api/org/apache/solr/schema/ExternalFileField.html >
