Yes, moving to mmap was on our roadmap. I'm in the middle of moving our infrastructure from 1.4 to 3.6.1, and didn't want to make too many changes at the same time. However, this bug might push us over the edge to mmap and away from ram.
I'll file a bug regardless. Thanks! 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 15, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Aug 14, 2012, at 4:34 PM, Michael Della Bitta > <michael.della.bi...@appinions.com> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> It looks like I found a bug with RAMDirectoryFactory (I know, I know...) >> > > Fair warning - RAMDir use in Solr is like a third class citizen. You probably > should be using the mmap dir anyway. > See http://blog.thetaphi.de/2012/07/use-lucenes-mmapdirectory-on-64bit.html > >> It doesn't seem to be able to load files off the disk. Everytime it >> starts up, it logs: >> >> WARNING: [] Solr index directory 'solr/./data/index' doesn't exist. >> Creating new index... >> >> Even if that filesystem path exists and there's a valid index there >> (verified by switching back to StandardDirectoryFactory). > > I think it *should* work how you want, so does sound like a bug perhaps. > >> >> I experienced this first on our infrastructure on AWS, but I confirmed >> this by downloading the Solr 3.6.1 distribution fresh, indexing the >> exampledocs, stopping Jetty and reconfiguring for RAMDirectoryFactory, >> and restarting Jetty. The statement above gets logged, but otherwise >> the core comes up OK, but empty. >> >> Should I file a bug? > > Sure. > >> >> Michael Della Bitta >> >> ------------------------------------------------ >> Appinions | 18 East 41st St., Suite 1806 | New York, NY 10017 >> www.appinions.com >> Where Influence Isn’t a Game > > - Mark Miller > lucidimagination.com > > > > > > > > > > >
