This is a known issue. Solr 4.7 will bring some relief. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5214
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Will Butler <w...@butlerhq.com> wrote: > We have a 125GB shard that we are attempting to split, but each time we try > to do so, we eventually run out of memory (java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC > overhead limit exceeded). We have attempted it with the following heap sizes > on the shard leader: 4GB, 6GB, 12GB, and 24GB. Even if it does eventually > work with more heap, should I have to increase the heap size at all to do a > split? Has anyone successfully done a split with a shard of this size using > SolrCloud 4.6.0? > > Thanks, > > Will -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
