> > And this overhead depends on what? I mean, if I create an empty collection > will it take up much heap size just for "being there" ?
Yes. You can search on elastic-search/solr/lucene mailing lists and see that it's true. But nobody has `empty` collections, so yours will have a schema and some data/segments and translog. On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 7:41 PM, jpereira <jpereira...@gmail.com> wrote: > The way the data is spread across the cluster is not really uniform. Most > of > shards have way lower than 50GB; I would say about 15% of the total shards > have more than 50GB. > > > Dorian Hoxha wrote > > Each shard is a lucene index which has a lot of overhead. > > And this overhead depends on what? I mean, if I create an empty collection > will it take up much heap size just for "being there" ? > > > Dorian Hoxha wrote > > I don't know about static/dynamic memory-issue though. > > I could not find anything related in the docs or the mailing list either, > but I'm still not ready to discard this suspicion... > > Again, thx for your time > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3. > nabble.com/Dynamic-schema-memory-consumption-tp4329184p4329367.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >