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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:37:46 -0400
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Subject: Re: questions about fieldCache
From: Erick Erickson <erickerickson@gmail.com>
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> So action that starts a new searcher and closes the old one (like
> replication)
> should release cache from fieldCache through garbage collection?

Absolutely. It won't be immediate, because the JVM has some
heuristics it uses to initiate garbage collection. You could try
attaching to the Solr instance with jConsole and use that to trigger
garbage collections to see what that could tell you...

Best
Erick

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Bernd Fehling
<bernd.fehling@uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
>
> Currently I'm using version 3.2.
> I used already 4.x some month ago but there was to much change to that ti=
me
> so I decided to go with 3.0.x and updated to 3.1 and now to 3.2.
>
> I'm still dealing with my fieldCache OOM issue and want to understand
> why things are as they are.
> I have already removed/solved one "insane message" from fieldCache and
> three ReadOnlyDirectoryReader Entries from fieldCache.
> Only sorting produces now an entry.
>
> So action that starts a new searcher and closes the old one (like
> replication)
> should release cache from fieldCache through garbage collection?
>
> Regards
> Bernd
>
> Am 21.06.2011 13:49, schrieb Erick Erickson:
>>
>> Hmmm, I'm not going to even try to talk about the code itself, but I wil=
l
>> add
>> a couple of clarifications:
>>
>> Jetty has nothing to do with it. It's in Lucene, and it's used for sorti=
ng
>> and
>> sometimes faceting. The cache is associated with a reader on a machine
>> used to search. When replication happens, that searcher should be closed
>> and any data associated with the cache is returned to the system.
>>
>> Someone else will have to chime in on the underlying details<G>..
>>
>> By the way, what version of Solr are you using? Because the memory
>> requirements for string sorting and faceting have been drastically
>> reduced on the trunk version. In a really rough test I've seen 75%
>> reductions in memory requirements (note I was doing the worst things
>> I could think of, so I don't necessarily expect your results to be as
>> drastic).
>>
>> Best
>> Erick
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Bernd Fehling
>> <bernd.fehling@uni-bielefeld.de> =A0wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm trying to understand the logic of/behind fieldCache.
>>>
>>> Who has written this peace of code or has good knowledge about it?
>>>
>>> Why is it under the hood of jetty?
>>>
>>> I see FieldCache$StringIndex with
>>> - f_dccollection
>>> - f_dcyear
>>> - f_dctype
>>> but also
>>> - dctitle --> =A0f_dctitle --> =A0f_dccreator
>>> - title --> =A0f_dcyear
>>>
>>> There are some entries without further reference like the first example=
s
>>> and some that have references to further HashMaps like a chain.
>>> Why is it this way, what is the purpose?
>>>
>>> What is fieldCache doing if a server is replicated, will all old conten=
t
>>> be cleaned up because of a new index with new content?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Bernd
>>>
>
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