On Apr 17, 2013, at 3:09 PM, Furkan KAMACI wrote: > I've just started to read about Solr caching. I want to learn one thing. > Let's assume that I have given 4 GB RAM into my Solr application and I have > 10 GB RAM. When Solr caching mechanism starts to work, does it use memory > from that 4 GB part or lets operating system to cache it from 6 GB part of > RAM that is remaining from Solr application?
Both. Solr manages caches of Java objects. These are stored in the Java heap. The OS manages caches of files. These are stored in file buffers managed by the OS. All are in RAM. wunder -- Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org
