Thanks for the response Erick. I actually turned up logging yesterday and
noticed spellchecker builds were causing the delays. Setting buildOnCommit to
false solved the problem. Our plan is to schedule a nightly timer task that
sends a 'spellcheck.build=true' to trigger it.
Mike
> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 08:25:52 -0500
> Subject: Re: Delays when deleting by query
> From: erickerick...@gmail.com
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
>
> Hmmm, this is unusual. Can we see the code you use to delete?
> And your solrconfig file? You're not doing something odd like
> optimizing on commit or anything, right?
>
> You shouldn't have to commit after deletes. The fact that you're
> hanging is very odd (BTW, does "hanging" mean you're system
> is locked up or just that you can't find your new documents?).
>
> You could try using the default Jetty container just for yucks
> to see if Tomcat is somehow the culprit, although many people
> use Tomcat so it'd b something peculiar to your setup.
>
> Best
> Erick
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Mike Gallan <mgal...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I ran some more tests. I added an explicit commit after each
> > deleteByQuery() call and removed the add/reindex step. This hung up
> > immediately and completed (or timed out?) after 20 minutes. The hangs
> > occur almost exactly 20 minutes apart. Could this be a Tomcat issue?
> >
> > I ran jconsole but didn't see any extraordinary memory or CPU usage. The
> > delays appear on the first delete attempt immediately after start up so I
> > suspect it's not GC related.
> >
> > I also tried adding documents without deleting. This worked with no
> > significant delays on the commit. The delete/commit combo appears to be
> > the source of the problem.
> >
> > Any tips on how to debug this are appreciated!
> > Thanks,Mike
> >
> >> From: mgal...@hotmail.com
> >> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> >> Subject: Delays when deleting by query
> >> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 08:25:28 -0500
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> We're encountering delays of 10+ minutes when trying to delete from our
> >> Solr 3.4 instance. We have 335k documents indexed and interface using
> >> SolrJ. Our schema basically consists of a parent object with multiple
> >> child objects. Every object is indexed as a separate document with the
> >> child documents referencing parents via a 'parentId' field. When any part
> >> of a parent object is updated solrServer.deleteByQuery() is called to
> >> delete the parent and all the child documents, then solrServer.add() is
> >> called to reindex them. We currently rely on autocommit, with maxDocs set
> >> to 100 and maxTime set to 30s. Deletes work fine on another Solr test
> >> instance with 22k documents.
> >>
> >> Any thoughts? Is this sort of delay common when deleting against this
> >> many documents?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Mike
> >>
> >
