If you are getting OutOfMemoryError did you try starting your process with a larger setting for -Xmx? You may need to allocate several gigabytes of RAM to rebuild all the indexes.
Sent from my iPad On Dec 31, 2011, at 6:08 AM, Mazhar_04 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Firstly, Thank you for everyone whom have contributed to Jackrabbit, its a > truly wonderful API. > > been using Jackrabbit 2.2.x and recently the indexes got corrupt due to some > system failure, > > I thought it would be easy enough to reindex so as per instructions I > deleted the index folder in the workspaces/default folder, unfortunately > this is the 4th attempt as the indexes keep failing to rebuild. > > I dont have a particularly large repository, its around 1.6TB, but he files > stored are big files. and of all sorts of the types, like multimedia, word > and man other types. > > I see the indexes reach a size of around 3.9GB and then it fails I have > assigned java heap 3GB to tomcat Server as it is a 64bit system and I have > around total 6GB. > > The other strange issue is that once it does fail and I restart the tomcat > it starts to rebuild the indexes from scratch again rather than from the > point it failed. > > I can see a lot of Out of java heap space errors through out the > catalina.out file. the last message read > > Index.Merger.java 570: Error While Merging indexes > Java.lang.OutOfMemoryError : Java Heap Space > > Can someone please help and guie me how I can get the indexes rebuilt. > > I have explicitly set the mergeFactor = 10 > > Many Thanks > > Mazhar > > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://jackrabbit.510166.n4.nabble.com/Reindex-failing-to-complete-tp4248184p4248184.html > Sent from the Jackrabbit - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
