OK I think you may be hitting this:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2422
Since you have very large docs, the reuse that's done by
IndexInput/Output is tying up alot of memory.
Ross can you try the patch I just attached on that issue (merge it w/
the other issues) and see if that fixes it? Thanks.
Mike
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Woolf, Ross <ross_wo...@bmc.com> wrote:
> I ported the patch to 2.9.2 dev but it did not seem to help. Attached is my
> port of the patch. This patch contains both 2283 and 2387, both of which I
> have applied in trying to resolving this issue.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael McCandless [mailto:luc...@mikemccandless.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 4:40 AM
> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Re: IndexWriter and memory usage
>
> 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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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Lance Norskog
>>>> goks...@gmail.com
>>>>
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