: I have some more info now that I have had time to dig into it. : : I can stop the loop and cause solr to behave by reloading two cores. It : doesn't matter which two, any two will do.
As Otis already said: please verify which PID is causing the CPU utilitization, and generate some thread dumps (using jstack) if it's the JVM so we can try to help track down where/why the problem is occuring... -Hoss