Hi,

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Neil:
>
> Here's a must-read blog about why allocating more memory
> to the JVM than Solr requires is a Bad Thing:
> http://blog.thetaphi.de/2012/07/use-lucenes-mmapdirectory-on-64bit.html
>
> It turns out that you actually do yourself harm by allocating more
> memory to the JVM than it really needs. Of course the problem is
> figuring out how much it "really needs", which if pretty tricky.
>
> Your long GC pauses _might_ be ameliorated by allocating _less_
> memory to the JVM, counterintuitive as that seems.

....or by using G1 :)

See http://blog.sematext.com/2013/06/24/g1-cms-java-garbage-collector/

Otis
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> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Neil Prosser <neil.pros...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I just have a little python script which I run with cron (luckily that's
>> the granularity we have in Graphite). It reads the same JSON the admin UI
>> displays and dumps numeric values into Graphite.
>>
>> I can open source it if you like. I just need to make sure I remove any
>> hacks/shortcuts that I've taken because I'm working with our cluster!
>>
>>
>> On 22 July 2013 19:26, Lance Norskog <goks...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Are you feeding Graphite from Solr? If so, how?
>>>
>>>
>>> On 07/19/2013 01:02 AM, Neil Prosser wrote:
>>>
>>>> That was overnight so I was unable to track exactly what happened (I'm
>>>> going off our Graphite graphs here).
>>>>
>>>
>>>

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