Thanks Winton, Thats what it was. I just assumed java would take all the 1G that it needed. Didn't realize the default was 64M. Also thanks for not saying RTFM (which I had done but didn't know what TF to do with the -Xmx option).
-Kurt -----Original Message----- From: Winton Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 12:22 PM To: Lucene Users List Subject: Re: Build index using RAMDirectory "out of memory" errors java -Xmx1000m .... Sorry if you already tried resizing your heap. Actually with 1.3.1 you could go up above a gig, but really swapping aint gonna help much. Winton >I have been using Lucene for 3 weeks and it rules. > >The indexing process can be slow. So I searched the mailgroup archives >and found example code using RAMDirectory to improve indexing speed. >The example code I found was indexing 100,000 files at a time to the >RAMDirectory before writing to disk. > >I tried indexing 10,000 files at a time to the RAMDirectory before writing >to disk. This drastically improved indexing times but sometimes I get >"out of memory" errors. I am indexing text files and adding 9 fields from >an Oracle database. > >Environment: >Solaris 2.8 with 1G of ram and 2G of swap >Java 1.3.1 >Lucene 1.2-rc4 > >Any ideas for eliminating the "out of memory" errors ? > > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Winton Davies Lead Engineer, Overture (NSDQ: OVER) 1820 Gateway Drive, Suite 360 San Mateo, CA 94404 work: (650) 403-2259 cell: (650) 867-1598 http://www.overture.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
