On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 11:50:15AM +0300, Alan Orth wrote:
> I'm still experiencing sporadic occurrences of the "Error opening new
> searcher" issue with the Solr statistics core. In our case Tomcat always
> shuts down cleanly, and even so, manually deleting the write locks before
> Tomcat startup doesn't seem to help. Thinking about this a bit more, it
> sounds plausible to me that high load or slow disks could indeed cause a
> timeout waiting for a write lock with large Solr cores. Our server has an
> SSD, but is indeed busy, and we have nine years of statistics with hundreds
> of millions of events.
> 
> Some Solr parameter that seems like it should help is writeLockTimeout. The
> default in solrconfig.xml is 1000ms (1 sec). I tried setting it to 5000 and
> 10000, neither of which helped. Should I try to bump this setting up to
> some obscenely high value? Could there be another factor here, like JVM
> heap size or settings? Happy to discuss experiences others are having.

It may be time to ask on the Solr users' ML
(solr-u...@lucene.apache.org).  They may at least know better than,
for example, I which classes' logging would be the most useful to
increase.

> P.S. I've been running Solr 4.10.4 in DSpace 5.8 production for over one
> month now (versus 4.10.2 in DSpace pom.xml).

That's useful to know.  Thanks!

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