are you closing your underlying IndexReaders properly? simon
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Yang <teddyyyy...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm running 8 index searchers java processes on a 8-core node. > They all read from the same lucene index on local hard drive. > > > the index contains about 20million docs, each doc is a small record with > about 200 bytes. > total size is about 5GB. > > it worked fine before, but recently (I don't know what changed) I found > that once the index searchers > are started, kswapd and kjournald take up 100% cpu (but this is not such a > bad thing, cuz the 8 cores > offer 800% cpu), and quickly the system comes to a freeze. > > I do NOT have swap on the system, so I don't understand why kswapd and > kjournald should be so busy. > But even if these 2 kernel processes are busy, that's no reason for the > system to freeze either. > Does this sound like a kernel bug? > > > the system is a EC2 instance: > Linux blahblah.mycompany.com 2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen #1 SMP Fri Feb 15 12:34:28 > EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > Thanks a lot > yang --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org