Shawn and Joel both answered the question with seemingly opposite answers, but Joel's should be right. On Deck, as an idiom, means "getting ready to go next". I think it has it's history in military / naval terminology (a plane being "on deck" of an aircraft carrier was the next one to take off), and was later used heavily in baseball (the "on deck" batter was the one warming up to go next) and probably elsewhere.
I've always understood the "on deck" searcher(s) being the same as the warming searcher(s). So you have the "active" searcher and them the warming or on deck searchers. -Trey On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jihwan: > > Correct. Do note that there are two distinct warnings here: > 1> "Error opening new searcher. exceeded limit of maxWarmingSearchers".... > 2> "PERFORMANCE WARNING: Overlapping onDeckSearchers=..." > > in <1>, the new searcher is _not_ opened. > in <2>, the new searcher _is_ opened. > > In practice, getting either warning is an indication of > mis-configuration. Consider a very large filterCache with large > autowarm values. Every new searcher will then allocate space for the > filterCache so having <1> is there to prevent runaway situations that > lead to OOM errors. > > <2> is just letting you know that you should look at your usage of > commit so you can avoid <1>. > > Best, > Erick > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Jihwan Kim <jihwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > why is there a setting (maxWarmingSearchers) that even lets you have more > > than one: > > Isn't it also for a case of (frequent) update? For example, one update is > > committed. During the warming up for this commit, another update is > > made. In this case the new commit also go through another warming. If > the > > value is 1, the second warming will fail. More number of concurrent > > warming-up requires larger memory usage. > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> bq: because shouldn't there only be one active > >> searcher at a time? > >> > >> Kind of. This is a total nit, but there can be multiple > >> searchers serving queries briefly (one hopes at least). > >> S1 is serving some query when S2 becomes > >> active and starts getting new queries. Until the last > >> query S1 is serving is complete, they both are active. > >> > >> bq: why is there a setting > >> (maxWarmingSearchers) that even lets > >> you have more than one > >> > >> The contract is that when you commit (assuming > >> you're opening a new searcher), then all docs > >> indexed up to that point are visible. Therefore you > >> _must_ open a new searcher even if one is currently > >> warming or that contract would be violated. Since > >> warming can take minutes, not opening a new > >> searcher if one was currently warming could cause > >> quite a gap. > >> > >> > >> Best, > >> Erick > >> > >> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 7:30 AM, Brent <brent.pear...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Hmmm, conflicting answers. Given the infamous "PERFORMANCE WARNING: > >> > Overlapping onDeckSearchers" log message, it seems like the "they're > the > >> > same" answer is probably correct, because shouldn't there only be one > >> active > >> > searcher at a time? > >> > > >> > Although it makes me curious, if there's a warning about having > multiple > >> > (overlapping) warming searchers, why is there a setting > >> > (maxWarmingSearchers) that even lets you have more than one, or at > least, > >> > why ever set it to anything other than 1? > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3. > >> nabble.com/on-deck-searcher-vs-warming-searcher-tp4309021p4309080.html > >> > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >> >
