No, this is on a test system that is still smallish, approx 100,000 records of dummy data with Wikipedia articles as content at the time this occurred.
I wouldn't expect rebuilding the index to stall the entire JVM, that seems excessive... Stephen Duncan Jr www.stephenduncanjr.com On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Markus Jelsma <markus.jel...@openindex.io> wrote: > Is this a huge index? Keep in mind that most spellchecker implementations > rebuild the index which can stall the entire process if there are millions of > full text documents to process. > > There is a new implementation called DirectSolrSpellchecker that doens't so a > complete rebuild but i haven't tried it yet but should work with the > SuggesterComonent. It's still experimental though. > >> We have a separate Java process indexing to Solr using SolrJ. We are >> using Solr 3.4.0, and Jetty version 8.0.1.v20110908. We experienced >> Solr hanging today. For a period of approximately 10 minutes, it did >> not respond to queries. Our indexer sends a query to build a >> spellcheck index after committing once it's added all new documents >> (because we have auto-commits that we don't want to trigger rebuilding >> the spellcheck, we don't use buildOnCommit), and then sends a query to >> build the suggest component index. We see this from the Solr log >> during the period it was hung (we attempted to send several queries >> during this time, but they do not appear in the log, or appear after >> waiting for several minutes): >> >> 2011-09-28 13:18:03,217 [qtp10884088-13] INFO >> org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore - [report] webapp= path=/select >> params={spellcheck=true&qt=dismax&wt=javabin&rows=0&spellcheck.build=true&v >> ersion=2} hits=98772 status=0 QTime=173594 >> 2011-09-28 13:28:18,857 [qtp10884088-89] INFO >> org.apache.solr.spelling.suggest.Suggester - build() >> ... >> 2011-09-28 13:29:02,873 [qtp10884088-89] INFO >> org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore - [report] webapp= path=/suggest >> params={spellcheck=true&qt=/suggest&wt=javabin&spellcheck.build=true&versio >> n=2} status=0 QTime=44016 >> >> In our indexer log, we see just after this (13:28:19,217) the call to >> build our suggestion index (which comes right after building the >> spellcheck index) times out and throws a NoHttpResponseException: The >> server localhost failed to respond. >> >> Any ideas? Anything else we should look at to help diagnose? >> --- >> Stephen Duncan Jr >> www.stephenduncanjr.com >