Hi,

Which type of doc values? See Wiki or reference guide for a list of types.

Otis
Solr & ElasticSearch Support
http://sematext.com/
On Mar 19, 2014 5:02 PM, "tradergene" <nos...@krevets.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I'm hoping to get your assistance in debugging what seems like a memory
> issue.
>
> I have a Solr index with about 32 million docs.  Each doc is relatively
> small but has multiple dynamic fields that are storing INTs.  The initial
> problem that I had to resolve is that we were running into OOMs (on a 48GB
> heap, 130GB on-disk index).  I narrowed that issue down to Lucene
> FieldCache
> filling up the heap due to all the dynamic fields.  To mitigate this, I
> enabled docValues on the schema for many of the dynamicField culprits.
>  This
> dropped the FieldCache down to almost nothing.
>
> Now, when re-indexing for docValues functionality, I ran into OOMs as soon
> as I reached 12 million of the 32 million documents.  Before enabling
> docValues, I was able to load up Solr on a 48GB heap but ran into problems
> after enough unique searches occurred (normal FieldCache issue).  Now, with
> docValues, a 48GB heap is giving me OOM after 12 million docs indexed.  I
> split the collection into 10 shards and with 2 nodes (48GB heap each) was
> able to get up to 21 million docs indexed.  Now, I've had to move the
> shards
> to more nodes and am up to 10 shards across 4 nodes and am hoping to be
> able
> to get all 32 million docs indexed.  This will be 48GB x 4 heap which seems
> really excessive for an index that was only 132GB pre-docValues.
>
> I would love some thoughts as to whether I'm expecting too much efficiency
> with docValues enabled.  I was under the impression that docValues would
> increase storage requirements on disk (which it has), but l thought that
> RAM
> usage would go down during searching (which I haven't tested) as well as
> indexing.
>
> Thanks for any assistance anyone can provide.
>
> Gene
>
>
>
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