Have you looked at: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCaching ?
But no, they aren't used for the same thing. The people who work on the code work hard to keep the memory use down. Best Erick On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:37 AM, RT RT <robt7...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to understand caching, looking on the wiki I can see that Solr > directly or indirectly uses Lucene's fieldCache and also it has it's own > fieldValueCache. They seem to store the same entries - field values. > > How does Solr use both of these caches, or are they the same thing? > > Thanks in advance.