Hi Jack, hi Erik, thanks for the tips! It's solr 3.6
I increased the batch to 1000 docs and the timeout to 10 s. Now it works. And I will implement the retry around the commit-call. Thx! > -----Original Message----- > From: Jack Krupansky [mailto:j...@basetechnology.com] > Sent: Mittwoch, 6. Juni 2012 13:52 > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: ReadTimeout on commit > > As Erick says, you are probably hitting an occasional > automatic background > merge which takes a bit longer. That is not an indication of > a problem. > Increase your connection timeout. Check the log to see how > long the merge or > "slow commit" takes. You have a timeout of 1000 which is 1 > second. Make it > longer, and possibly put the commit or other indexing > operations in a loop > with a few retries before considering connection timeout a > fatal error. > Occasional delays are a fact or life in a multi-process, networked > environment. > > -- Jack Krupansky > > -----Original Message----- > From: Erick Erickson > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 7:02 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: ReadTimeout on commit > > You're probably hitting a background merge and the request is timing > out even though the commit succeeds. Try querying for the data in > the last packet to test this. > > And you don't say what version of Solr you're using. > > One test you can do is increase the number of documents before > a commit. If merging is the problem I'd expect you to _still_ > encounter > this problem, just much less often. That would at least tell > you if this > is the right path to investigate. > > Best > Erick > > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:51 AM, <spr...@gmx.eu> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm indexing documents in batches of 100 docs. Then commit. > > > > Sometimes I get this exception: > > > > org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrServerException: > > java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out > > at > > > org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.CommonsHttpSolrServer.reques > t(CommonsHttpS > > olrServer.java:475) > > at > > > org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.CommonsHttpSolrServer.reques > t(CommonsHttpS > > olrServer.java:249) > > at > > > org.apache.solr.client.solrj.request.AbstractUpdateRequest.pro > cess(AbstractU > > pdateRequest.java:105) > > at > > org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrServer.commit(SolrServer.java:178) > > > > > > I found some similar postings in the web, all recommending > autocommit. > > This > > is unfortunately not an option for me, because I have to > know whether solr > > committed or not. > > > > What is causing this timeout? > > > > I'm using these settings in solrj: > > > > server.setSoTimeout(1000); > > server.setConnectionTimeout(100); > > server.setDefaultMaxConnectionsPerHost(100); > > server.setMaxTotalConnections(100); > > server.setFollowRedirects(false); > > server.setAllowCompression(true); > > server.setMaxRetries(1); > > > > Thank you > > >