Thank you for your help! I wrote an article on Performance Testing Solr filterCache "Shedding Light on Apache Solr filterCache for VuFind" that I am hoping to get published.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vl-nmlprSULvNZKQNrqp65eLnLhG9s_ydXQtg9iML10 Anyone can comment and I would highly appreciate this! My biggest fear is to have something inaccurate about filterCache or Solr in general in there. Any and all suggestions welcome! Thanks again, Ben On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's specific to using the facet.method=enum, but do admit it's easy > to miss that. > > I added a note about that though... > > Thanks for pointing that out! > > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Benjamin Wiens > <benjamin.wi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks to both of you. Yes the mentioned config is illustrative, we > decided > > for 512 after thorough testing. However, when you google "Solr > filterCache" > > the first link is the community wiki which has a config even higher than > > the illustration which is quite different from the official reference > > guide. It might be a good idea to change this unless there's a very small > > index. > > > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCaching#filterCache > > > > <filterCache class="solr.LRUCache" size="16384" > > initialSize="4096" autowarmCount="4096"/> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > > >> Ben: > >> > >> As Shawn says, you're on the right track... > >> > >> Do note, though, that a 10K size here is probably excessive, YMMV of > >> course. > >> > >> And an autowarm count of 5,000 is almost _certainly_ far more than you > >> want. All these fq clauses get re-executed whenever a new searcher is > >> opened (soft commit or hard commit with openSearcher=true). I realize > >> this may just be illustrative. Is this your actual setup? And if so, > >> what is your motivation for 5,000 autowarm count? > >> > >> Best, > >> Erick > >> > >> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Shawn Heisey <s...@elyograg.org> > wrote: > >> > On 6/18/2014 10:57 AM, Benjamin Wiens wrote: > >> >> Thanks Erick! > >> >> So let's say I have a config of > >> >> > >> >> <filterCache > >> >> class="solr.FastLRUCache" > >> >> size="10000" > >> >> initialSize="10000" > >> >> autowarmCount="5000"/> > >> >> > >> >> MaxDocuments = 1,000,000 > >> >> > >> >> So according to your formula, filterCache should roughly have the > >> potential > >> >> to consume this much RAM: > >> >> ((1,000,000 / 8) + 128) * (10,000) = 1,251,280,000 byte / 1,000 = > >> >> 1,251,280 kb / 1,000 = 1,251.28 mb / 1000 = 1.25 gb > >> > > >> > Yes, this is essentially correct. If you want to arrive at a number > >> > that's more accurate for the way that OS tools will report memory, > >> > you'll divide by 1024 instead of 1000 for each of the larger units. > >> > That results in a size of 1.16GB instead of 1.25. Computers think in > >> > powers of 2, dividing by 1000 assumes a bias to how people think, in > >> > powers of 10. It's the same thing that causes your computer to report > >> > 931GB for a 1TB hard drive. > >> > > >> > Thanks, > >> > Shawn > >> > > >> >
