Hi, Andy, What version of Solr are you running and what Directory implementation are you using? How much RAM does your system have, and how much is available for use by Solr?
Michael Della Bitta ------------------------------------------------ Appinions | 18 East 41st St., Suite 1806 | New York, NY 10017 www.appinions.com Where Influence Isn’t a Game On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Andy Lester <a...@petdance.com> wrote: > I'm having a problem with Solr under Tomcat unexpectedly taking a long time > to respond to queries. As part of some stress testing, I wrote a bot that > just does random word searches on my Solr install, and my responses typically > come back in 10-50 ms. The queries are just 1-3 random words from > /usr/share/dict/words, and I cap off the results at 2500 hits. > > The queries run just fine and I typically get responses up to 50ms for large > result sets. Here's an example of my log: > > TIME HITS MS SEARCH WORDS > 12:33:20 1 5 hoovey Aruru kwachas > 12:33:20 8 5 blinis twyver > 12:33:20 2500 34 prework burlily sunshine > 12:33:20 1928 30 rendu Solly > 12:33:20 unnethe > 12:33:20 gadwell afterpeak > 12:33:20 792 14 steen > 12:33:20 4 7 blanchi repaving > 12:33:20 32 6 torbanite Storz ungag > 12:33:20 7 5 chemostat > 12:33:20 15 6 Guauaenok Adao lakist > 12:33:20 6 6 bechance viny > 12:33:20 20 6 chagigah > 12:33:22 532 2404 bonne > 12:33:22 143 9 nonman Norrie > 12:33:22 24 6 repealers > 12:33:22 Pfosi laniard locutory > 12:33:22 51 6 sexipolar wordsmith enshield > 12:33:22 loggiest Aryanise koels > 12:33:22 fogyish unforcing > 12:33:22 4 5 Millvale chokies > 12:33:22 5 6 Melfa ripal Olva > 12:33:22 15 6 apio Heraea latimeria > 12:33:22 4 5 nonnitric parleying > > See that one line where it 2404ms to return? I get those about once a > minute, but not at a regular interval. I ran this for two hours and got 122 > spikes in 120 minutes. I ran it overnight and came in to work to find that > there were 1283 spikes in 1260 minutes. So that one-a-minute is a pattern. > > As I write this, I'm in IRC with Chris Hostetter and he says: > > --snip-- > Probably need to tweak your garbage collector settings to something that > doesn't involve "stop the world" ... the specifics of the changes largely > depend on what JVM you are using, what options you already have set, etc. > markrmiller wrote a good blog about this a little while back: > http://searchhub.org/dev/2011/03/27/garbage-collection-bootcamp-1-0/ There's > also some notes here in the LucidWorks Solr Ref Guide: > http://lucidworks.lucidimagination.com/display/solr/JVM+Settings > --snip-- > > GC certainly sounds like a reasonable suspect. Any other suggestions? Any > hints on Solr-specific GC tuning? I'm currently scouring Google. > > Thanks, > xoa > > -- > Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance >
