Basically it never reached consensus, see the discussion at: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-6638
If you can afford it I've seen people with very good results using Zing/Azul, but that can be expensive. DocValues can help for fields you facet and sort on, those essentially move memory into the OS cache. But memory is an ongoing struggle I'm afraid. Best, Erick On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Phillip Peleshok <ppeles...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I've been using Solr for some time now and running into GC issues as most > others have. Now I've exhausted all the traditional GC settings > recommended by various individuals (ie Shawn Heisey, etc) but neither > proved sufficient. The one solution that I've seen that proved useful is > Heliosearch and the off-heap implementation. > > My question is this, why wasn't the off-heap FieldCache implementation ( > http://yonik.com/hs-solr-off-heap-fieldcache-performance/) ever rolled into > Solr when the other HelioSearch improvement were merged? Was there a > fundamental design problem or just a matter of time/testing that would be > incurred by the move? > > Thanks, > Phil
