RAM can be used in IndexWriter for other reasons: merge is running, near-real-time reader was opened.
The RAMBufferSizeMB only applies to buffered postings (indexed documents) If you turn on IndexWriter's infoStream, do you see output saying it's flushing a new segment because RAM is > 5.0 MB? Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Clemens Wyss <[email protected]> wrote: > We limit the memory consumption of our IndexWriters by setting > RAMBufferSizeMB to 5MB (IndexWriterConfig.setRAMBufferSizeMB). > Inspecting a heapdump unveils that I still have writers wich consume/retain > more than 35MB! > How come? > Any help/advice appreciated > Clemens > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
