The default facet.limit is 10, but it's set to 50 for most of the facets. I've included the query parameters below. In case it makes any difference, there are quite a lot of facet fields with large numbers of terms, and the queries are being generated by the Sarnia Drupal module.
Thanks, Andy --- <lst name="params"> <str name="f.links_public_suffixes.facet.limit">50</str> <str name="f.postcode_district.facet.limit">50</str> <str name="facet">true</str> <str name="sort">wayback_date asc</str> <str name="f.content_type_served.facet.limit">50</str> <str name="f.sentiment.facet.limit">50</str> <str name="facet.limit">10</str> <str name="f.content_encoding.facet.limit">50</str> <str name="f.last_modified_year.facet.limit">50</str> <str name="f.links_hosts.facet.limit">50</str> <str name="facet.method">enum</str> <str name="f.author.facet.limit">50</str> <str name="fl">*,score</str> <str name="f.content_type_full.facet.limit">50</str> <str name="f.content_type.facet.limit">50</str> <str name="f.content_type_ext.facet.limit">50</str> <arr name="facet.field"> <str>sentiment</str> <str>private_suffix</str> <str>public_suffix</str> <str>postcode_district</str> <str>content_type_ext</str> <str>content_type_full</str> <str>{!ex=content_type_norm}content_type_norm</str> <str>content_type_served</str> <str>content_type</str> <str>content_language</str> <str>author</str> <str>content_encoding</str> <str>content_ffb</str> <str>{!ex=crawl_year}crawl_year</str> <str>domain</str> <str>links_public_suffixes</str> <str>links_private_suffixes</str> <str>links_hosts</str> <str>generator</str> <str>last_modified_year</str> </arr> <str name="qt">standard</str> <str name="facet.enum.cache.minDf">500</str> <str name="facet.missing">false</str> <str name="f.crawl_year.facet.limit">50</str> <str name="facet.mincount">1</str> <str name="f.content_language.facet.limit">50</str> <str name="json.nl">map</str> <str name="wt">xml</str> <str name="f.private_suffix.facet.limit">50</str> <str name="rows">20</str> <str name="f.content_ffb.facet.limit">50</str> <str name="f.generator.facet.limit">50</str> <str name="f.links_private_suffixes.facet.limit">50</str> <str name="f.domain.facet.limit">50</str> <str name="facet.sort">count</str> <str name="start">0</str> <str name="q">*:*</str> <str name="f.public_suffix.facet.limit">50</str> <str name="f.content_type_norm.facet.limit">50</str> </lst> --- > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Ryan [mailto:mr...@moreover.com] > Sent: 03 September 2013 13:41 > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: RE: Memory usage during aggregation - SolrCloud with very large > numbers of facet terms. > > > However, the Solr instance we direct our client query to is consuming > significantly more RAM (10GB) and is still failing after a few queries when it > runs out of heap space. This is presumably due to the role it plays, > aggregating the results from each shard. > > That seems quite odd... What facet parameters are you using in the query? I > could imagine memory issues if you're using facet.limit=-1, or some very > large number. > > -Michael