Justin, Please check solr-user archive on markmail.org and search for "overcommit" or even "Whitman" to find a recent thread that I believe has the answer to this question.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Justin Yao <jus...@snooth.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2009 11:16:05 AM > Subject: encountered the "Cannot allocate memory" when calling snapshooter > program after optimize command > > Hi, > > I configured solr to listen on postOptimize event and call the snapshooter > program after an optimize command. It works well when the Java heap size is > set > to less than 4G. But if I increased the java heap size to 5G, the snapshooter > program can't be successfully called after the optimize command and error > message is here: > > SEVERE: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program > "/home/solr_1.3/solr/bin/snapshooter" (in directory > "/home/solr_1.3/solr/bin"): > java.io.IOException: error=12, Cannot allocate memory > at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:459) > at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:593) > > Here is my server platform: > > OS: CentOS 5.2 x86_64 > Memory: 8G > Solr: 1.3 > > > Any suggestion is appreciated. > > Thanks, > Justin
