Thanks!

- Mark

On Jan 22, 2013, at 2:38 PM, eksdev <eks...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Just to share some experience if someone hits the same problem.  
> 
> We had huge problems on Win7 64bit, JVM 64bit 1.7.0_07,  (a few days old 
> trunk version, 5.0, default codec) solr under tomcat thread queue limited to 
> 20 . NRTCaching and MMAP have the same problems (no updates , just search). 
> Unmap hack was on
> 
> Problem:
> After hitting it for 15 minutes with 10 search threads, gc() did not manage  
> to catch-up and free enough memory and the server repeatably spiralled to OOM 
> (giving more max heap did not help as well). Server is running on 8 cores, 
> and 10 client threads are normally not an issue.
> 
> Observations:
> - Tweaking jvm memory and gc() options did not help at all.  
> - exactly the  same configuration and tests on 3 linux  flavours  had 
> absolutely no problems. 
> - Win using FSDirectory works slower, but stable 
> - When "OOM" spiralling happens, major culprits are, by occupied memory and 
> Noo of instances: 
> o.a.l.util.WeakIdentityMap$IdentityWeakReference   
> java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap$HashEntry
> java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap$HashEntry[]
> - if pausing search requests for really long time (5 to 10 minutes!) these 
> references get eventually released.
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> 
> 
> I know java+MMAP on win platforms has problems (slowly releasing mapped 
> regions), but I did not expect it is that bad, to the point of being useless. 
>   
> It is not an itch currently, all our production is on linux, but if someone 
> has an idea how to work around it,  we would be glad to try it.  
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