Is it possible that some other places that's using SegmentTermEnum
as ThreadLocal?
This may explain why TermInfosReader.ThreadResources is not in the
memory snapshot.
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On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 2:45 AM, Michael McCandless
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I still don't quite understand what's causing your memory growth.
SegmentTermEnum insances have been held in a ThreadLocal cache in
TermInfosReader for a very long time (at least since Lucene 1.4).
If indeed it's the RAMDir's contents being kept "alive" due to
this, then, you should have already been seeing this problem
before rev 659602. And I still don't get why your reference tree
is missing the TermInfosReader.ThreadResources class.
I'd like to understand the root cause before we hash out possible
solutions.
Can you post the sources for your load test?
Mike
Chris Lu wrote:
Actually, even I only use one IndexReader, some resources are
cached via the ThreadLocal cache, and can not be released unless
all threads do the close action.
SegmentTermEnum itself is small, but it holds RAMDirectory along
the path, which is big.
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On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:43 PM, robert engels
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You do not need a pool of IndexReaders...
It does not matter what class it is, what matters is the class
that ultimately holds the reference.
If the IndexReader is never closed, the SegmentReader(s) is never
closed, so the thread local in TermInfosReader is not cleared
(because the thread never dies). So you will get one
SegmentTermEnum, per thread * per segment.
The SegmentTermEnum is not a large object, so even if you had 100
threads, and 100 segments, for 10k instances, seems hard to
believe that is the source of your memory issue.
The SegmentTermEnum is cached by thread since it needs to
enumerate the terms, not having a per thread cache, would lead to
lots of random access when multiple threads read the index - very
slow.
You need to keep in mind, what if every thread was executing a
search simultaneously - you would still have 100x100
SegmentTermEnum instances anyway ! The only way to prevent that
would be to create and destroy the SegmentTermEnum on each call
(opening and seeking to the proper spot) - which would be SLOW
SLOW SLOW.
On Sep 10, 2008, at 12:19 AM, Chris Lu wrote:
I have tried to create an IndexReader pool and dynamically create
searcher. But the memory leak is the same. It's not related to the
Searcher class specifically, but the SegmentTermEnum in
TermInfosReader.
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On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:14 PM, robert engels
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A searcher uses an IndexReader - the IndexReader is slow to open,
not a Searcher. And searchers can share an IndexReader.
You want to create a single shared (across all threads/users)
IndexReader (usually), and create an Searcher as needed and
dispose. It is VERY CHEAP to create the Searcher.
I am fairly certain the javadoc on Searcher is incorrect. The
warning "For performance reasons it is recommended to open only
one IndexSearcher and use it for all of your searches" is not true
in the case where an IndexReader is passed to the ctor.
Any caching should USUALLY be performed at the IndexReader level.
You are most likely using the "path" ctor, and that is the source
of your problems, as multiple IndexReader instances are being
created, and thus the memory use.
On Sep 9, 2008, at 11:44 PM, Chris Lu wrote:
On J2EE environment, usually there is a searcher pool with several
searchers open.
The speed to opening a large index for every user is not acceptable.
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On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 9:03 PM, robert engels
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You need to close the searcher within the thread that is using it,
in order to have it cleaned up quickly... usually right after you
display the page of results.
If you are keeping multiple searcher refs across multiple threads
for paging/whatever, you have not coded it correctly.
Imagine 10,000 users - storing a searcher for each one is not
going to work...
On Sep 9, 2008, at 10:21 PM, Chris Lu wrote:
Right, in a sense I can not release it from another thread. But
that's the problem.
It's a J2EE environment, all threads are kind of equal. It's
simply not possible to iterate through all threads to close the
searcher, thus releasing the ThreadLocal cache.
Unless Lucene is not recommended for J2EE environment, this has to
be fixed.
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On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 8:14 PM, robert engels
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Your code is not correct. You cannot release it on another thread
- the first thread may creating hundreds/thousands of instances
before the other thread ever runs...
On Sep 9, 2008, at 10:10 PM, Chris Lu wrote:
If I release it on the thread that's creating the searcher, by
setting searcher=null, everything is fine, the memory is released
very cleanly.
My load test was to repeatedly create a searcher on a RAMDirectory
and release it on another thread. The test will quickly go to OOM
after several runs. I set the heap size to be 1024M, and the
RAMDirectory is of size 250M. Using some profiling tool, the used
size simply stepped up pretty obviously by 250M.
I think we should not rely on something that's a "maybe" behavior,
especially for a general purpose library.
Since it's a multi-threaded env, the thread that's creating the
entries in the LRU cache may not go away quickly(actually most, if
not all, application servers will try to reuse threads), so the
LRU cache, which uses thread as the key, can not be released, so
the SegmentTermEnum which is in the same class can not be released.
And yes, I close the RAMDirectory, and the fileMap is released. I
verified that through the profiler by directly checking the values
in the snapshot.
Pretty sure the reference tree wasn't like this using code before
this commit, because after close the searcher in another thread,
the RAMDirectory totally disappeared from the memory snapshot.
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On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Michael McCandless
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chris Lu wrote:
The problem should be similar to what's talked about on this
discussion.
http://lucene.markmail.org/message/keosgz2c2yjc7qre?q=ThreadLocal
The "rough" conclusion of that thread is that, technically, this
isn't a memory leak but rather a "delayed freeing" problem. Ie,
it may take longer, possibly much longer, than you want for the
memory to be freed.
There is a memory leak for Lucene search from Lucene-1195.(svn
r659602, May23,2008)
This patch brings in a ThreadLocal cache to TermInfosReader.
One thing that confuses me: TermInfosReader was already using a
ThreadLocal to cache the SegmentTermEnum instance. What was added
in this commit (for LUCENE-1195) was an LRU cache storing Term ->
TermInfo instances. But it seems like it's the SegmentTermEnum
instance that you're tracing below.
It's usually recommended to keep the reader open, and reuse it when
possible. In a common J2EE application, the http requests are usually
handled by different threads. But since the cache is ThreadLocal,
the cache
are not really usable by other threads. What's worse, the cache
can not be
cleared by another thread!
This leak is not so obvious usually. But my case is using
RAMDirectory,
having several hundred megabytes. So one un-released resource is
obvious to
me.
Here is the reference tree:
org.apache.lucene.store.RAMDirectory
|- directory of org.apache.lucene.store.RAMFile
|- file of org.apache.lucene.store.RAMInputStream
|- base of org.apache.lucene.index.CompoundFileReader
$CSIndexInput
|- input of org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentTermEnum
|- value of java.lang.ThreadLocal$ThreadLocalMap$Entry
So you have a RAMDir that has several hundred MB stored in it,
that you're done with yet through this path Lucene is keeping it
alive?
Did you close the RAMDir? (which will null its fileMap and should
also free your memory).
Also, that reference tree doesn't show the ThreadResources class
that was added in that commit -- are you sure this reference tree
wasn't before the commit?
Mike
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