Yonik,

I have provided an image below gives details on what is causing the blocked 
http thread. Is there any way to resolve this issue.

Thanks,
John

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John Williams
System Administrator
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On Mar 9, 2010, at 10:41 AM, John Williams wrote:

> Yonik,
> 
> I got yourkit setup to profile the Tomcat instance and as you will see in the 
> graph below all of the   http threads are blocked (red) until around 4:40. 
> This is the point where the instance becomes responsive and CPU usage drops. 
> I have also ruled out GC being the issue by using the GC monitoring in 
> yourkit. Let me know your thoughts and if you have any questions.
> 
> Thanks for your assistance.
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> --
> John Williams
> System Administrator
> 37signals
> 
> <Screen shot 2010-03-09 at 10.35.15 AM.png>
> On Mar 8, 2010, at 5:28 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:07 PM, John Williams <j...@37signals.com> wrote:
>>> Yonik,
>>> 
>>> In all cases our "autowarmCount" is set to 0. Also, here is a link to our 
>>> config. http://pastebin.com/iUgruqPd
>> 
>> Weird... on a quick glance, I don't see anything in your config that
>> would cause work to be done on a commit.
>> I expected something like autowarming, or rebuilding a spellcheck
>> index, etc.  I assume this is happening even w/o any requests hitting
>> the server?
>> 
>> Could it be GC?  You could use -verbose:gc or jconsole to check if
>> this corresponds to a big GC (which could naturally hit on an index
>> change).  5 minutes is really excessive though, and I wouldn't expect
>> it on startup.
>> 
>> If it's not GC, perhaps the next step is to get some stack traces
>> during the spike (or use a profiler) to figure out where the time is
>> being spent.  And verify that the solrconfig.xml shown actually still
>> matches the one you provided.
>> 
>> -Yonik
>> http://www.lucidimagination.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> John
>>> 
>>> --
>>> John Williams
>>> System Administrator
>>> 37signals
>>> 
>>> On Mar 8, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Is this just autowarming?
>>>> Check your autowarmCount parameters in solrconfig.xml
>>>> 
>>>> -Yonik
>>>> http://www.lucidimagination.com
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:37 PM, John Williams <j...@37signals.com> wrote:
>>>>> Good afternoon.
>>>>> 
>>>>> We have been experiencing an odd issue with one of our Solr nodes. Upon 
>>>>> startup or when bringing in a new index we get a CPU spike for 5 minutes 
>>>>> or so. I have attached a graph of this spike. During this time simple 
>>>>> queries return without a problem but more complex queries do not return. 
>>>>> Here are some more details about the instance:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Index Size: ~16G
>>>>> Max Heap: 6144M
>>>>> GC Option: -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
>>>>> System Memory: 16G
>>>>> 
>>>>> We have a very similar instance to this one but with a much larger index 
>>>>> that we are not seeing this sort of issue.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Your help is greatly appreciated. Let me know if you need any additional 
>>>>> information.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> John
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> John Williams
>>>>> System Administrator
>>>>> 37signals
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
> 

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