Eros Taborelli created SOLR-11882:
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             Summary: SolrMetric registries cause huge memory consumption with 
lots of transient cores
                 Key: SOLR-11882
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-11882
             Project: Solr
          Issue Type: Bug
      Security Level: Public (Default Security Level. Issues are Public)
          Components: Server
    Affects Versions: 7.1
            Reporter: Eros Taborelli
         Attachments: solr-dump-full_Leak_Suspects.zip

*Description:*

Our setup involves using a lot of small cores (possibly hundred thousand), but 
working only on a few of them at any given time.

We already followed all recommendations in this guide: 
[https://wiki.apache.org/solr/LotsOfCores]

We noticed that after creating/loading around 1000-2000 empty cores, with no 
documents inside, the heap consumption went through the roof despite having set 
transientCacheSize to only 64 (heap size set to 12G).

All cores are correctly set to loadOnStartup=false and transient=true, and we 
have verified via logs that the cores in excess are actually being closed.

However, a reference remains in the 
org.apache.solr.metrics.SolrMetricManager#registries that is never removed 
until a core if fully unloaded.

Restarting the JVM loads all cores in the admin UI, but doesn't populate the 
ConcurrentHashMap until a core is actually fully loaded.

I reproduced the issue on a smaller scale (transientCacheSize = 5, heap size = 
512m) and made a report (attached) using eclipse MAT.

*Desired outcome:*

When a transient core is closed, the references in the SolrMetricManager should 
be removed, in the same fashion the reporters for the core are also closed and 
removed.

In alternative, a unloadOnClose=true|false flag could be implemented to fully 
unload a transient core when closed due to the cache size.

*Note:*

The documentation mentions everywhere that the unused cores will be unloaded, 
but it's misleading as the cores are never fully unloaded.



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