Compiling solr with lucene 2.9.3 instead of 2.9.1 will solve this issue? Regards, Matteo
On 19 June 2010 02:28, Lance Norskog <goks...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Lucene implementation of sorting creates an array of four-byte > ints for every document in the index, and another array of the unique > values in the field. > If the timestamps are 'date' or 'tdate' in the schema, they do not > need the second array. > > You can also sort by a field's with a function query. This does not > build the arrays, but might be a little slower. > Yes, the sort arrays (and also facet values for a field) should be > controlled by a fixed-size cache, but they are not. > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Matteo Fiandesio > <matteo.fiande...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> we are experiencing OOM exceptions in our single core solr instance >> (on a (huge) amazon EC2 machine). >> We investigated a lot in the mailing list and through jmap/jhat dump >> analyzing and the problem resides in the lucene FieldCache that fills >> the heap and blows up the server. >> >> Our index is quite small but we have a lot of sort queries on fields >> that are dynamic,of type long representing timestamps and are not >> present in all the documents. >> Those queries apply sorting on 12-15 of those fields. >> >> We are using solr 1.4 in production and the dump shows a lot of >> Integer/Character and Byte Array filled up with 0s. >> With solr's trunk code things does not change. >> >> In the mailing list we saw a lot of messages related to this issues: >> we tried truncating the dates to day precision,using missingSortLast = >> true,changing the field type from slong to long,setting autowarming to >> different values,disabling and enabling caches with different values >> but we did not manage to solve the problem. >> >> We were thinking to implement an LRUFieldCache field type to manage >> the FieldCache as an LRU and preventing but, before starting a new >> development, we want to be sure that we are not doing anything wrong >> in the solr configuration or in the index generation. >> >> Any help would be appreciated. >> Regards, >> Matteo >> > > > > -- > Lance Norskog > goks...@gmail.com >