On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Greg Preston <gpres...@marinsoftware.com> wrote: > That was it. Setting omitNorms="true" on all fields fixed my problem. > I left it indexing all weekend, and heap usage still looks great.
Good! > I'm still not clear why bouncing the solr instance freed up memory, > unless the in-memory structure for this norms data is lazily loaded > somehow. In fact it is lazily loaded, the first time a search (well, Similarity) needs to load the norms for scoring. > Anyway, thank you very much for the suggestion. You're welcome. Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com