I think we should at least open an issue to try to improve the exception
message?  We might catch the exception higher up (where we know the field
name) and rethrow with the field name, maybe.  We can discuss options on
the issue ...

If you are not using custom term frequencies it's not clear to me how you
could even have hit this exception.

Mike McCandless

http://blog.mikemccandless.com


On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 4:10 PM Michael Sokolov <msoko...@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is definitely a confusing error condition. If we can add more
> information without creating an undue burden for the indexer it would
> be nice, but I think this will be very challenging here since the
> exception is thrown at a low level in the code where there might not
> be a lot of useful info (ie the field name) to provide. And I expect
> there are other places that make a similar assumption we would have to
> track down?
>
> On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 9:10 AM Jerven Tjalling Bolleman
> <jerven.bolleman@sib.swiss> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Michael,
> >
> > Looking deeper into this. I think we overflowed a term frequency field.
> > Looking in some statistics, in a previous release we had 1,288,526,281
> > of a certain field, this would be larger now. Each of these would have
> > had a limited set of values. But crucially nearly all of them would have
> > had the term "positional" or "non-positional" added to the document.
> >
> > There is no good reason to do this today, we should just turn this into
> > a boolean field and update the UI. I will do this and report back.
> >
> > Do you think that a patch for a try/catch for a more informative log
> > message be appreciated by the community? e.g. mentioning the field name
> > in the exception?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jerven
> >
> > On 5/7/24 14:52, Jerven Tjalling Bolleman wrote:
> > > Dear Michael,
> > >
> > > Thank you for your help.
> > >
> > > We don't use custom term frequencies (I just double checked with a code
> > > search).
> > > We also always merge down to one segment (historical but also we index
> > > once and then there are no changes for a week to a month and then we
> > > reindex every document from scratch).
> > >
> > > Your response is very helpful already and I very much appreciate it as
> > > it cuts down the search space significantly.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Jerven
> > >
> > >
> > > On 5/7/24 14:03, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> > >> It seems as if the term frequency for some term exceeded the maximum.
> > >> This can happen if you supplied custom term frequencies eg with
> > >>
> https://lucene.apache.org/core/9_10_0/core/org/apache/lucene/analysis/tokenattributes/TermFrequencyAttribute.html?is-external=true
> > >> . The behavior didn't change since 8.x but it's possible that the
> > >> merging brought together some very "high frequency" terms that were
> > >> previously not in the same segment?
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 4:03 AM Jerven Tjalling Bolleman
> > >> <jerven.bolleman@sib.swiss> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Dear Lucene community,
> > >>>
> > >>> This morning I found this exception in our logs. This was the first
> time
> > >>> we indexed this data with lucene 9.10. Before we were still on the
> > >>> lucene 8.x branch. between the last indexing with 8 and this one with
> > >>> 9.10 we have a bit more data so it could be something else that went
> > >>> over an limit.
> > >>>
> > >>> Unfortunately, from this log message I am at a loss for what is going
> > >>> on. And what I could do to prevent this from happening. Does anyone
> have
> > >>> any ideas?
> > >>>
> > >>> Regards,
> > >>> Jerven Bolleman
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Exception in thread "Lucene Merge Thread #202"
> > >>> org.apache.lucene.index.MergePolicy$MergeException:
> > >>> java.lang.ArithmeticException: integer overflow
> > >>> at
> > >>>
> org.apache.lucene.index.ConcurrentMergeScheduler.handleMergeException(ConcurrentMergeScheduler.java:735)
> > >>> at
> > >>>
> org.apache.lucene.index.ConcurrentMergeScheduler$MergeThread.run(ConcurrentMergeScheduler.java:727)
> > >>> Caused by: java.lang.ArithmeticException: integer overflow
> > >>> at java.base/java.lang.Math.toIntExact(Math.java:1135)
> > >>> at
> > >>>
> org.apache.lucene.store.DataOutput.writeGroupVInts(DataOutput.java:354)
> > >>> at
> > >>>
> org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene99.Lucene99PostingsWriter.finishTerm(Lucene99PostingsWriter.java:379)
> > >>> at
> > >>>
> org.apache.lucene.codecs.PushPostingsWriterBase.writeTerm(PushPostingsWriterBase.java:173)
> > >>> at
> > >>>
> org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene90.blocktree.Lucene90BlockTreeTermsWriter$TermsWriter.write(Lucene90BlockTreeTermsWriter.java:1097)
> > >>> at
> > >>>
> org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene90.blocktree.Lucene90BlockTreeTermsWriter.write(Lucene90BlockTreeTermsWriter.java:398)
> > >>> at
> org.apache.lucene.codecs.FieldsConsumer.merge(FieldsConsumer.java:95)
> > >>> at
> > >>>
> org.apache.lucene.codecs.perfield.PerFieldPostingsFormat$FieldsWriter.merge(PerFieldPostingsFormat.java:205)
> > >>> at
> > >>>
> org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentMerger.mergeTerms(SegmentMerger.java:209)
> > >>> at
> > >>>
> org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentMerger.mergeWithLogging(SegmentMerger.java:298)
> > >>> at
> org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentMerger.merge(SegmentMerger.java:137)
> > >>> at
> > >>>
> org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.mergeMiddle(IndexWriter.java:5252)
> > >>> at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.merge(IndexWriter.java:4740)
> > >>> at
> > >>>
> org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter$IndexWriterMergeSource.merge(IndexWriter.java:6541)
> > >>> at
> > >>>
> org.apache.lucene.index.ConcurrentMergeScheduler.doMerge(ConcurrentMergeScheduler.java:639)
> > >>> at
> > >>>
> org.apache.lucene.index.ConcurrentMergeScheduler$MergeThread.run(ConcurrentMergeScheduler.java:700)
> > >>>
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