Hello,
We recently began migrating a few of our applications from 1.3 to 1.4 in
order to take advantage of the replication and performance improvements.
In practice however, we are noticing that our instances which make use
of LocalSolr have experienced some performance degradation from 1.3 to
1.4. This mostly appears to be due to some dramatically different GC
patterns between the two despite using the same JDK, data set, and GC
parameters, and solr cache sizes.
Versions
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LocalSolr: HEAD as of August 27
Solr: 1.4-DEV from 6/10/09
JDK: Sun Hotspot 1.6.0_14
Has anyone else seen this type of behavior with Solr/LocalSolr queries?
Some graphs of our results (transactions per second) between both
versions are available at the following link. While performance is
relatively similar when using UseParallelGC rather than
UseConcMarkSweepGC, we do still notice some relatively long pause times
in 1.4 when compared with 1.3 during GC windows.
https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/162474/performance.png
The queries run for this test make use of LocalSolr sorting and
filtering based on distances between 2 sets of lat/long coordinates.
We are currently using LocalSolr HEAD with 6/10/09 revision of Solr 1.4.
The reason we selected that revision was due to it being the revision
that LocalSolr was last released against. We do however plan to spend
some time this week testing newer builds of Solr 1.4 to see if similar
behavior exists.
Regards,
Ilan
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Ilan Rabinovitch
i...@fonz.net
