Perhaps this describes your problem: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3685
-----Original message----- > From:Jam Luo <cooljam2...@gmail.com> > Sent: Tue 07-Aug-2012 11:52 > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Recovery problem in solrcloud > > Hi > I have big index data files more then 200g, there are two solr > instance in a shard. leader startup and is ok, but the peer alway OOM > when it startup. The peer alway download index files from leader because > of recoveringAfterStartup property in RecoveryStrategy, total time taken > for download : 2350 secs. if data of the peer is empty, it is ok, but the > leader and the peer have a same generation number, why the peer > do recovering? > > thanks > cooljam >