Have you tried it with a smaller number of documents? I haven't been able to successfully split a shard with 4.4.0 with even a handful of docs.
-Greg On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Harald Kirsch <harald.kir...@raytion.com>wrote: > Hi all. > > Using the example setup of solr-4.4.0, I was able to easily feed 23 > million documents from ClueWeb09. > > The I tried to split the one shard into tqo. The size on disk is: > > % du -sh collection1 > 118G collection1 > > I started Solr with 8GB for the JVM: > > java -Xmx8000m -DzkRun -DnumShards=2 > -Dbootstrap_confdir=./solr/**collection1/conf > -Dcollection.configName=myconf -jar start.jar > > Then I asked for the split > > http://localhost:8983/solr/**admin/collections?action=** > SPLITSHARD&collection=**collection1&shard=shard1<http://localhost:8983/solr/admin/collections?action=SPLITSHARD&collection=collection1&shard=shard1> > > After a while I got the OOM in the logs: > > 841168 [qtp614872954-17] ERROR org.apache.solr.servlet.**SolrDispatchFilter > – null:java.lang.**RuntimeException: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java > heap space > > My question: is it to be expected that the split needs huge amounts of RAM > or is there a chance that some configuration or procedure change could get > me past this? > > Regards, > Harald. > -- > Harald Kirsch > Raytion GmbH > Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring 74 > 40547 Duesseldorf > Fon +49-211-550266-0 > Fax +49-211-550266-19 > http://www.raytion.com >
