You can use ping functionality by setting time-out that suits for your container/web-apps. If its not working then you can restart your container. Cheers!
If any other solution I am interested too. On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 2:19 AM, CP Mishra <mishr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Solr & Lucene dev folks must be catching Throwable for a reason. Anyway, I > am asking for solutions that I can use. > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Fuad Efendi <f...@efendi.ca> wrote: > > > The best practice: do not ever try to catch Throwable or its descendants > > Error, VirtualMachineError, OutOfMemoryError, and etc. > > > > Never ever. > > > > Also, do not swallow InterruptedException in a loop. > > > > Few simple rules to avoid hanging application. If we follow these, there > > will be no question "what is the best way to stop Solr when it gets in > OOM” > > (or just becomes irresponsive because of swallowed exceptions) > > > > > > -- > > Fuad Efendi > > 416-993-2060(cell) > > > > On February 25, 2016 at 2:37:45 PM, CP Mishra (mishr...@gmail.com) > wrote: > > > > Looking at the previous threads (and in our tests), oom script specified > > at > > command line does not work as OOM exception is trapped and converted to > > RuntimeException. So, what is the best way to stop Solr when it gets in > > OOM > > state? The only way I see is to override multiple handlers and do > > System.exit() from there. Is there a better way? > > > > We are using Solr with default Jetty container. > > > > Thanks, > > CP Mishra > > > > >