Not a solution for the short term but sounds like a good use case to migrate
to Solr 4.X and use DocValues instead of FieldCache for faceting.
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Hi,
70 GB heap and still OOMing? H sure, 14 fields for faceting,
but still - 70 GB heap!
Don't have source handy, but I quickly looked at FC src here -
http://search-lucene.com/c/Lucene:core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/FieldCache.java
- I see mentions of "delete" there, so I would
I'm 99% sure that the deleted docs will indeed use up space in the field cache,
at least until the segments that those documents are in are merged - that is
what an optimize will do. Of course, these segments will automatically be
merged eventually, but it might take days for this to happen, dep