I noticed your wiki post about sorting with a function query instead of the Lucene sort mechanism. Did you see a significantly reduced memory footprint by doing this? Did you reduce the number of fields you allowed users to sort by?
Lance Norskog-2 wrote: > > Sorting creates a large array with "roughly" an entry for every document > in > the index. If it is not on an 'integer' field it takes even more memory. > If > you do a sorted request and then don't sort for a while, that will drop > the > sort structures and trigger a giant GC. > > We went through some serious craziness with sorting. > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Performance-%22dead-zone%22-due-to-garbage-collection-tp21588427p21814038.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
