I've encountered an OOM that seems to come after the server has been up for a few weeks.
While I would love for someone to just tell me "you did X wrong", I'm more interested in trying to debug this. So, given the error below, where would I look next? The only odd thing that sticks out to me is that my log file had grown to about 70G. Would that cause an error like this? This is Solr 4.2. Jul 24, 2013 3:08:09 PM org.apache.solr.common.SolrException log SEVERE: null:java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.sendError(SolrDispatchFilter.java:651) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:364) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:141) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1307) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:453) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:137) at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:560) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:231) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1072) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:382) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:193) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1006) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:135) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:255) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:154) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:116) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:365) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.handleRequest(AbstractHttpConnection.java:485) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.BlockingHttpConnection.handleRequest(BlockingHttpConnection.java:53) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.headerComplete(AbstractHttpConnection.java:926) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(AbstractHttpConnection.java:988) at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:642) at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:235) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.BlockingHttpConnection.handle(BlockingHttpConnection.java:72) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.bio.SocketConnector$ConnectorEndPoint.run(SocketConnector.java:264) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:608) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:543) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at org.apache.lucene.util.OpenBitSet.<init>(OpenBitSet.java:88) at org.apache.solr.search.DocSetCollector.collect(DocSetCollector.java:65) at org.apache.lucene.search.Scorer.score(Scorer.java:64) at org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.search(IndexSearcher.java:605) at org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.search(IndexSearcher.java:297) at org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher.getDocSetNC(SolrIndexSearcher.java:1060) at org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher.getPositiveDocSet(SolrIndexSearcher.java:763) at org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher.getProcessedFilter(SolrIndexSearcher.java:880) at org.apache.solr.search.Grouping.execute(Grouping.java:284) at org.apache.solr.handler.component.QueryComponent.process(QueryComponent.java:384) at org.apache.solr.handler.component.SearchHandler.handleRequestBody(SearchHandler.java:208) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:135) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1797) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:637) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:343) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:141) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1307) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:453) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:137) at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:560) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:231) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1072) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:382) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:193) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1006) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:135) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:255) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:154) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:116) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:365) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.handleRequest(AbstractHttpConnection.java:485) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.BlockingHttpConnection.handleRequest(BlockingHttpConnection.java:53) -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/How-to-debug-an-OutOfMemoryError-tp4080085.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.