Thank you for your explanations, this will help me to figure out my system.
2013/4/10 Shawn Heisey <s...@elyograg.org> > On 4/9/2013 9:12 PM, Furkan KAMACI wrote: > > I am sorry but you said: > > > > *you need enough free RAM for the OS to cache the maximum amount of disk > > space all your indexes will ever use* > > > > I have made an assumption my indexes at my machine. Let's assume that it > is > > 5 GB. So it is better to have at least 5 GB RAM? OK, Solr will use RAM up > > to how much I define it as a Java processes. When we think about the > > indexes at storage and caching them at RAM by OS, is that what you talk > > about: having more than 5 GB - or - 10 GB RAM for my machine? > > If your index is 5GB, and you give 3GB of RAM to the Solr JVM, then you > would want at least 8GB of total RAM for that machine - the 3GB of RAM > given to Solr, plus the rest so the OS can cache the index in RAM. If > you plan for double the cache memory, you'd need 13 to 14GB. > > Thanks, > Shawn > >