Oooh -- I suspect you are hitting this issue:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2283
Your 3rd image ("fdt") jogged my memory on this one. Can you try
testing the trunk JAR from after that issue landed? (Or, apply that
patch against 3.0.x -- let me know if it does not apply cleanly and
I'll try to back port it).
But: it's spooky that you cannot repro this issue in your dev
environment. Are you matching the # thread and exact sequence of
docs?
Mike
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Woolf, Ross <ross_wo...@bmc.com> wrote:
> We are still plagued by this issue. I tried applying the patch mentioned but
> this did not resolve the issue.
>
> I once tried to attach images from the heap dump to send out to the group but
> the server removed them so I have posted the images on a public service with
> links this time. I would appreciate someone looking at them to see if they
> provide any insight into what is occurring with this issue.
>
> When you follow the link click on the image and then once you see the image
> click on a link in the lower left hand corner that says "View Raw Image."
> This will let you view the images at 100% resolution.
>
> This first image shows what we are seeing within VisualVM in regards to the
> memory. As you can see, over time the memory gets consumed. Finally we are
> at a point where there is no more memory available.
> Graph
> http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2ltk0h3&s=5
>
> This second image in VisualVM shows the classes sorted by size. As you can
> see, about 70% of all memory is consumed in the bytes array.
> Bytes
> http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=s10mqs&s=5
>
> This third image is where the real info is. This is where one of the bytes
> is being examined and the option to go to nearest GC is chosen. What you see
> here is what the majority of the bytes show if selected, so this one is
> representative of most all. As you can see this one byte is associated with
> the index writer as you look at the chain of objects (and thus so too are all
> the other bytes that have not been released for GC).
> Garbage Collection
> http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=5obalj&s=5
>
> I'm hoping that as you look at this that it might mean something to you or
> give you a clue as to what is holding on to all the memory.
>
> Now the mysterious thing in all of this is that our use of Lucene has been
> developed into a "plug-in" that we use within an application that we have.
> If I just run JUnit tests around this plugin, indexing some of the same files
> that the actual application is indexing, I cannot ever get the memory loss in
> my dev environment. Everything seems to work as expected. However, once we
> are in our real situation, then we see this behavior. Because of this I
> would expect that the problem lays with the application, but once we examine
> the heap dumps it then goes back to showing that the consumed bytes are
> "owned" by the index writer process. It makes no sense to me that we see
> this as we do, but none the less we do. We see that the Index Writer process
> is hanging onto a lot of data in byte arrays and it doesn't ever seam to
> release it.
>
> In addition, we would love to show this to someone via a webex if that would
> help in seeing what is going on.
>
> Please, any help appreciated and any suggestions on how to resolve or even
> troubleshoot. I can provide an actual heap dump but it is 63mb in size
> (compressed) so we would need to work out some FTP where we can provide it if
> someone is willing to look at it in VisualVM (or any other profiling tool).
>
> BTW - If we open and close the index writer on a regular basis then we don't
> run into this problem. It is only when we run continuously with an open
> index writer that we do see this problem (we altered the code to open/close
> the writer a lot, but this slows things down, so we don't want to run like
> this, but we wanted to test the behavior if we did so).
>
> Thanks,
> Ross
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael McCandless [mailto:luc...@mikemccandless.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 2:52 PM
> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Re: IndexWriter and memory usage
>
> Run this:
>
> svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/java/branches/lucene_2_9
> lucene.29x
>
> Then apply the patch, then, run "ant jar-core", and in that should
> create the lucene-core-2.9.2-dev.jar.
>
> Mike
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Woolf, Ross <ross_wo...@bmc.com> wrote:
>> How do I get to the 2.9.x branch? Every link I take from the Lucene site
>> takes me to the trunk which I assume is the 3.x version. I've tried to look
>> around svn but can't find anything labeled 2.9.x. Is there a daily build of
>> 2.9.x or do I need to build it myself. I would like to try out the fix you
>> put into it, but I'm not sure where I get it from.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael McCandless [mailto:luc...@mikemccandless.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 4:12 AM
>> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: IndexWriter and memory usage
>>
>> It looks like the mailing list software stripped your image attachments...
>>
>> Alas these fixes are only committed on 3.1.
>>
>> But I just posted the patch on LUCENE-2387 for 2.9.x -- it's a tiny
>> fix. I think the other issue was part of LUCENE-2074 (though this
>> issue included many other changes) -- Uwe can you peel out just a
>> 2.9.x patch for resetting JFlex's zzBuffer?
>>
>> You could also try switching analyzers (eg to WhitespaceAnalyzer) to
>> see if in fact LUCENE-2074 (which affects StandandAnalyzer, since it
>> uses JFlex) is [part of] your problem.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Woolf, Ross <ross_wo...@bmc.com> wrote:
>>> Since the heap dump was so big and can't be attached, I have taken a few
>>> screen shots from Java VisualVM of the heap dump. In the first image you
>>> can see that at the time our memory has become very tight most of it is
>>> held up in bytes. In the second image I examine one of those instances and
>>> navigate to the nearest garbage collection root. In looking at very many
>>> of these objects, they all end up being instantiated through the
>>> IndexWriter process.
>>>
>>> This heap dump is the same one correlating to the infoStream that was
>>> attached in a prior message. So while the infoStream shows the buffer
>>> being flushed, what we experience is that our memory gets consumed over
>>> time by these bytes in the IndexWriter.
>
>>>
>>> I wanted to provide these images to see if they might correlate to the
>>> fixes mentioned below. Hopefully those fixes mentioned below have
>>> rectified this problem. And as I state in the prior message, I'm hoping
>>> these fixes are in a 2.9x branch and hoping for someone to point me to
>>> where I can get those fixes to try out.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Woolf, Ross [mailto:ross_wo...@bmc.com]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 1:29 PM
>>> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
>>> Subject: RE: IndexWriter and memory usage
>>>
>>> Are these fixes in 2.9x branch? We are using 2.9x and can't move to 3x
>>> just yet. If so, where do I specifically pick this up from?
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Lance Norskog [mailto:goks...@gmail.com]
>>> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 10:20 PM
>>> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
>>> Subject: Re: IndexWriter and memory usage
>>>
>>> There is some bugs where the writer data structures retain data after
>>> it is flushed. They are committed as of maybe the past week. If you
>>> can pull the trunk and try it with your use case, that would be great.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Woolf, Ross <ross_wo...@bmc.com> wrote:
>>>> I was on vacation last week so just getting back to this... Here is the
>>>> info stream (as an attachment). I'll see what I can do about reducing the
>>>> heap dump (It was supplied by a colleague).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Michael McCandless [mailto:luc...@mikemccandless.com]
>>>> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 3:39 AM
>>>> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
>>>> Subject: Re: IndexWriter and memory usage
>>>>
>>>> Hmm why is the heap dump so immense? Normally it contains the top N
>>>> (eg 100) object types and their count/aggregate RAM usage.
>>>>
>>>> Can you attach the infoStream output to an email (to java-user)?
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Woolf, Ross <ross_wo...@bmc.com> wrote:
>>>>> I have this and the heap dump is 63mb zipped. The info stream is much
>>>>> smaller (31 kb zipped), but I don't know how to get them to you.
>>>>>
>>>>> We are not using the NRT readers
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Michael McCandless [mailto:luc...@mikemccandless.com]
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 5:21 PM
>>>>> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
>>>>> Subject: Re: IndexWriter and memory usage
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm, not good. Can you post a heap dump? Also, can you turn on
>>>>> infoStream, index up to the OOM @ 512 MB, and post the output?
>>>>>
>>>>> IndexWriter should not hang onto much beyond the RAM buffer. But, it
>>>>> does allocate and then recycle this RAM buffer, so even in an idle
>>>>> state (having indexed enough docs to fill up the RAM buffer at least
>>>>> once) it'll hold onto those 16 MB.
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you using getReader (to get your NRT readers)? If so, are you
>>>>> really sure you're eventually closing the previous reader after
>>>>> opening a new one?
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Woolf, Ross <ross_wo...@bmc.com> wrote:
>>>>>> We are seeing a situation where the IndexWriter is using up the Java
>>>>>> Heap space and only releases memory for garbage collection upon a
>>>>>> commit. We are using the default RAMBufferSize of 16 mb. We are using
>>>>>> Lucene 2.9.1. We are set at heap size of 512 mb.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We have a large number of documents that are run through Tika and then
>>>>>> added to the index. The data from Tika is changed to a string, and then
>>>>>> sent to Lucene. Heap dumps clearly show the data in the Lucene classes
>>>>>> and not in Tika. Our intent is to only perform a commit once the entire
>>>>>> indexing run is complete, but several hours into the process everything
>>>>>> comes to a crawl. In using both JConsole and VisualVM we can see that
>>>>>> the heap space is maxed out and garbage collection is not able to clean
>>>>>> up any memory once we get into this state. It is our understanding that
>>>>>> the IndexWriter should be only holding onto 16 mb of data before it
>>>>>> flushes it, but what we are seeing is that while it is in fact writing
>>>>>> data to disk when it hits the 16 mb limit, it is also holding onto some
>>>>>> data in memory and not allowing garbage collection to take place, and
>>>>>> this continues until garbage collection is unable to free up enough
>>>>>> space to all things to move faster than a crawl.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As a test we caused a commit to occur after each document is indexed and
>>>>>> we see the total amount of memory reduced from nearly 100% of the Java
>>>>>> Heap to around 70-75%. The profiling tools now show that the memory is
>>>>>> cleaned up to some extent after each document. But of course this
>>>>>> completely defeats the whole reason why we want to only commit at the
>>>>>> end of the run for performance sake. Most of the data, as seen using
>>>>>> Heap analasis, is held in Byte, Character, and Integer classes whos GC
>>>>>> roots are tied back to the Writer Objects and threads. The instance
>>>>>> counts, after running just 1,100 documents seems staggering
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there additional data that the IndexWriter hangs onto regardless of
>>>>>> when it hits the RAMBufferSize limit? Why are we seeing the heap space
>>>>>> all being used up?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A side question to this is the fact that we always see a large amount of
>>>>>> memory used by the IndexWriter even after our indexing has been
>>>>>> completed and all commits have taken place (basically in an idle state).
>>>>>> Why would this be? Is the only way to totally clean up the memory is
>>>>>> to close the writer? Our index is also used for real time indexing so
>>>>>> the IndexWriter is intended to remain open for the lifetime of the app.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any help in understanding why the IndexWriter is maxing out our heap
>>>>>> space or what is expected from memory usage of the IndexWriter would be
>>>>>> appreciated.
>>>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>> goks...@gmail.com
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