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Tim Smith commented on LUCENE-4398:
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NOTE: 16 bytes of "unaccounted" space in the postingsHash is actually much less
than the object header fields require for TermsHashPerField
so, i would argue that not accounting for this 16 bytes is a valid low-profile
fix to this
the only gotcha would be if trimFields() is ever called on a TermsHashPerField
that has not been shrunk down to size due to a flush
is this possible?
even if possible, i expect this only occurs in the rare case of deep-down
exceptions?
in that case, if abort() is called, i suppose the abort() method can be updated
to shrink down the hash as well (if this is safe to do)
> "Memory Leak" in TermsHashPerField memory tracking
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>
> Key: LUCENE-4398
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4398
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 3.4
> Reporter: Tim Smith
>
> I am witnessing an apparent leak in the memory tracking used to determine
> when a flush is necessary.
> Over time, this will result in every single document being flushed into its
> own segment as the memUsage will remain above the configured buffer size,
> causing a flush to be triggered after every add/update.
> Best I can figure, this is being caused by TermsHashPerField's tracking of
> memory usage for postingsHash and/or postingsArray combined with
> multi-threaded feeding.
> I suspect that the TermsHashPerField's postingsHash is growing in one thread,
> then, when a segment is flushed, a single, different thread will merge all
> TermsHashPerFields in FreqProxTermsWriter and then call shrinkHash(). I
> suspect this call of shrinkHash() is seeing an old postingsHash array, and
> subsequently not releasing all the memory that was allocated.
> If this is the case, I am also concerned that FreqProxTermsWriter will not
> write the correct terms into the index, although I have not confirmed that
> any indexing problem occurs as of yet.
> NOTE: i am witnessing this growth in a test by subtracting the amount or
> memory allocated (but in a "free" state) by
> perDocAllocator/byteBlockAllocator/charBlocks/intBlocks from
> DocumentsWriter.memUsage.get() in IndexWriter.doAfterFlush()
> I will see this stay at a stable point for a while, then on some flushes, i
> will see this grow by a couple of bytes, and all subsequent flushes will
> never go back down the the previous state
> I will continue to investigate and post any additional findings
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