Thanks Steve,

That certainly looks like it could be the culprit.  Any word on a release
date for 4.7.1?  Days?  Weeks?  Months?

Mike


On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Steve Rowe <sar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> The OOM you're seeing is likely a result of the bug described in (and
> fixed by a commit under) SOLR-5875: <
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5875>.
>
> If you can build from source, it would be great if you could confirm the
> fix addresses the issue you're facing.
>
> This fix will be part of a to-be-released Solr 4.7.1.
>
> Steve
>
> On Mar 17, 2014, at 4:14 PM, Mike Hugo <m...@piragua.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > We recently upgraded to Solr Cloud 4.7 (went from a single node Solr 4.0
> > instance to 3 node Solr 4.7 cluster).
> >
> > Part of out application does an automated traversal of all documents that
> > match a specific query.  It does this by iterating through results by
> > setting the start and rows parameters, starting with start=0 and
> rows=1000,
> > then start=1000, rows=1000, start = 2000, rows=1000, etc etc.
> >
> > We do this in parallel fashion with multiple workers on multiple nodes.
> > It's easy to chunk up the work to be done by figuring out how many total
> > results there are and then creating 'chunks' (0-1000, 1000-2000,
> 2000-3000)
> > and sending each chunk to a worker in a pool of multi-threaded workers.
> >
> > This worked well for us with a single server.  However upon upgrading to
> > solr cloud, we've found that this quickly (within the first 4 or 5
> > requests) causes an OutOfMemory error on the coordinating node that
> > receives the query.   I don't fully understand what's going on here, but
> it
> > looks like the coordinating node receives the query and sends it to the
> > shard requested.  For example, given:
> >
> > shards=shard3&sort=id+asc&start=4000&q=*:*&rows=1000
> >
> > The coordinating node sends this query to shard3:
> >
> > NOW=1395086719189&shard.url=
> >
> http://shard3_url_goes_here:8080/solr/collection1/&fl=id&sort=id+asc&start=0&q=*:*&distrib=false&wt=javabin&isShard=true&fsv=true&version=2&rows=5000
> >
> > Notice the rows parameter is 5000 (start + rows).  If the coordinator
> node
> > is able to process the result set (which works for the first few pages,
> > after that it will quickly run out of memory), it eventually issues this
> > request back to shard3:
> >
> > NOW=1395086719189&shard.url=
> >
> http://10.128.215.226:8080/extera-search/gemindex/&start=4000&ids=a..bunch...(1000)..of..doc..ids..go..here&q=*:*&distrib=false&wt=javabin&isShard=true&version=2&rows=1000
> >
> > and then finally returns the response to the client.
> >
> > One possible workaround:  We've found that if we issue non-distributed
> > requests to specific shards, that we get performance along the same lines
> > that we did before.  E.g. issue a query with shards=shard3&distrib=false
> > directly to the url of the shard3 instance, rather than going through the
> > cloud solr server solrj API.
> >
> > The other workaround is to adapt to use the new new cursorMark
> > functionality.  I've manually tried a few requests and it is pretty
> > efficient, and doesn't result in the OOM errors on the coordinating node.
> > However, i've only done this in single threaded manner.  I'm wondering if
> > there would be a way to get cursor marks for an entire result set at a
> > given page interval, so that they could then be fed to the pool of
> parallel
> > workers to get the results in parallel rather than single threaded.  Is
> > there a way to do this so we could process the results in parallel?
> >
> > Any other possible solutions?  Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Mike
>
>

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