Hello Zqzuk, It's true that this index is probably too big for a single shard, but make sure you heed Shawn's advice and use a 64-bit JVM in any case!
Michael Della Bitta ------------------------------------------------ Appinions 18 East 41st Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10017-6271 www.appinions.com Where Influence Isn’t a Game On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:45 PM, zqzuk <ziqizh...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > Thanks again for your kind input! > > I followed Tim's advice and tried to use MMapDirectory. Then I get > outofmemory on solr startup (tried giving only 8G, 4G to JVM) > > I guess this truely indicates that there arent sufficient memory for such a > huge index. > > On another thread I posted days before, regarding splitting index for > solrcloud, the answer I got was that it is not possible to split an existing > index into a solrcloud configuration. > > I will try re-indexing with solrcloud instead... > > thanks > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/170G-index-1-5-billion-documents-out-of-memory-on-query-tp4042696p4042819.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
