Hi all, We are using Lucene 2.9.0 to power a search and are performing a large number of searches. We are initializing our searcher with the code:
Directory directory = FSDirectory.open(new File(Constants.IndexLocation)); Searcher searcher = new IndexSearcher(directory,true); Upon every search request, we are performing the following TopDocs results = searcher.search(query,Constants.MAXHITS); As expected, the first request takes up a large amount of time as the index warms up. However, we have noticed that the time taken keeps decreasing continuously as and when more results are served. My guess is that results are being cached somewhere. The runtime classes for directory and index reader are as follows: org.apache.lucene.store.NIOFSDirectory org.apache.lucene.index.ReadOnlyDirectoryReader Eventually, JVM runs out of memory as we see from jvm stats that old generation capacity reaches the maximum. We are using Concurrent Mark sweep GC strategy, and it gets invoked during every search request thereafter. I have tried looking for answers in forums, but couldn't find any. As per many threads, there is no caching involved in Lucene by default, unless QueryFilter and CachingWrapperFilter are used. I tried looking into Lucene code also a bit, but couldn't find any clues. Does anyone have any pointers as to why this could be happening ? Thanks! Abhay -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Memory-leak-with-Lucene-Search-tp3162070p3162070.html Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org