Hi Erick,

Do you know, whether the client used facet.threads, even once?

There's a bug in solr with threaded faceting, that makes use of unlimited
amount of threads.

Regards,
Dmitry
On 24 Apr 2015 3:17 am, "Erick Erickson" <[email protected]> wrote:

> A client had a Solr instance doing absolutely nothing for a month.
> Literally a test system that was idle. When they tried to finally do
> something, they couldn't. That Solr process had over 16K threads
> operating. No indexing, no querying, was going on, nada.
>
> They investigated and found that the Solr couldn't connect to
> Zookeeper and had a zillion threads (well, actually about 16K which
> was their limit) with the stack trace at the end.
>
> Admittedly the client had a weird situation where Solr couldn't talk
> to Zookeeper, and admittedly Solr can't do much if it can't talk to
> ZK.
>
> Even so this seems odd. I'm also a bit worried that if they fix the
> reason Solr couldn't talk to ZK (maybe it's a firewall issue? plug the
> cable back in?) that when all those threads suddenly get to do their
> thing what will happen? Not to mention any effects on other processes.
>
> Anyway, if this is worth a JIRA I can create one if there aren't any
> already.
>
> Solr 4.10
>
> Here's the stack trace:
>
> "main-EventThread" daemon prio=10 tid=0x000000000a38d000 nid=0xeb51 in
> Object.wait() [0x00007e8c15c89000]
>
>    java.lang.Thread.State: TIMED_WAITING (on object monitor)
>        at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
>        at
> org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ConnectionManager.waitForConnected(ConnectionManager.java:215)
>         - locked <0x00000003c5306fc0> (a
> org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ConnectionManager)
>         at
> org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ConnectionManager$1.update(ConnectionManager.java:138)
>         at
> org.apache.solr.common.cloud.DefaultConnectionStrategy.reconnect(DefaultConnectionStrategy.java:56)
>         at
> org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ConnectionManager.process(ConnectionManager.java:132)
>         at
> org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn$EventThread.processEvent(ClientCnxn.java:522)
>         at
> org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn$EventThread.run(ClientCnxn.java:498)
>
> Erick
>
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