Here is some more information: The Tomcat status before the process starts shows: Tomcat Version: Apache Tomcat/6.0.26 JVM Version: 1.6.0-b09 JVM Vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Free memory: 1033.68 MB Total memory: 1873.56 MB Max memory: 1873.56 MB When it stops with the out of memory error, it still shows about 500mb of memory free and it is working on the request: GET /solr-nutch/select?q=id%3A%5B*+TO+*%5D&fl=id%2Cboost%2Ctstamp%2Cdigest&start =0&rows=9634413&wt=javabin&version=1 HTTP/1.1
