While waiting for someohe to help answer my multicore config issue :),... I decided to test SOLR's limits on a single instance/core config.
We occasionally need to index large text files (that must not be broken up). This results in an out of memory error. I tried increasing tomcat's heap size to 1 GB but this doesn't help. Is there an alternative approach that addresses this issue? The following trace was caused by an attempt to index a 300 MB text file. Mar 21, 2012 4:38:33 PM org.apache.solr.common.SolrException log SEVERE: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:2882) at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.expandCapacity(AbstractStringBuilder.java:100) at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.append(AbstractStringBuilder.java:515) at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:189) at org.apache.solr.handler.extraction.SolrContentHandler.characters(SolrContentHandler.java:292) at org.apache.tika.sax.ContentHandlerDecorator.characters(ContentHandlerDecorator.java:146) at org.apache.tika.sax.SecureContentHandler.characters(SecureContentHandler.java:222) at org.apache.tika.sax.ContentHandlerDecorator.characters(ContentHandlerDecorator.java:146) at org.apache.tika.sax.ContentHandlerDecorator.characters(ContentHandlerDecorator.java:146) at org.apache.tika.sax.ContentHandlerDecorator.characters(ContentHandlerDecorator.java:146) at org.apache.tika.sax.SafeContentHandler.access$001(SafeContentHandler.java:46) at org.apache.tika.sax.SafeContentHandler$1.write(SafeContentHandler.java:82) at org.apache.tika.sax.SafeContentHandler.filter(SafeContentHandler.java:140) at org.apache.tika.sax.SafeContentHandler.characters(SafeContentHandler.java:294) at org.apache.tika.sax.XHTMLContentHandler.characters(XHTMLContentHandler.java:268) at org.apache.tika.parser.txt.TXTParser.parse(TXTParser.java:132) at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:242) at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:242) at org.apache.tika.parser.AutoDetectParser.parse(AutoDetectParser.java:129) at org.apache.solr.handler.extraction.ExtractingDocumentLoader.load(ExtractingDocumentLoader.java:213) at org.apache.solr.handler.ContentStreamHandlerBase.handleRequestBody(ContentStreamHandlerBase.java:58) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:129) at org.apache.solr.core.RequestHandlers$LazyRequestHandlerWrapper.handleRequest(RequestHandlers.java:241) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1372) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:356) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:252) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-Tika-crashing-when-attempting-to-index-large-files-tp3846939p3846939.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.