Hi, I have a method that deletes entries from Lucene and calls IndexWriter.commit() in the end. This method is called multiple times and each time the batch size varies from 5-20 items.
After some deletions, commit() causes JVM to crash. I am using Lucene 3.6 and JDK is jrockit-jdk-1.6.0_22-R28.1.1-4.0.1-x64. Following is the partial JVM dump: 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) Roots Dump Helper: 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) thread=0x00000000681A2530 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) method=org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.prepareCommit(Ljava/util/Map;)V 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) sp=0x000000006AC4D5D0 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) ip=0x000000002088CC8A 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) ref=0x000000006AC4D5A0 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) *ref=0x00000003D914CD81 (interior pointer to 0x00000003D914CD80) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) stackIter=0x000000005F7DFD00 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) refIter=0x000000005F7DFD58 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) storage=rbp 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) Roots Processed Thread: "Email Batch Committer 2" id=251 idx=0x21c tid=21388 lastJavaFrame=0x000000006AC4D2C0 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) at jrockit/vm/Allocator.getNewTla(JJ)V(Native Method) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) at jrockit/vm/Allocator.allocObjectOrArray(Allocator.java:354)[optimized] 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) at java/util/HashMap.<init>(HashMap.java:253)[inlined] 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) at java/util/HashSet.<init>(HashSet.java:86)[optimized] 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) at org/apache/lucene/index/SegmentInfos.files(SegmentInfos.java:836) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) at org/apache/lucene/index/IndexFileDeleter.incRef(IndexFileDeleter.java:480)[inlined] 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) at org/apache/lucene/index/IndexFileDeleter.checkpoint(IndexFileDeleter.java:453)[optimized] 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) at org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter$ReaderPool.commit(IndexWriter.java:648) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) at org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.prepareCommit(IndexWriter.java:3383)[optimized] 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) at org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.commitInternal(IndexWriter.java:3491)[optimized] 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) at org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.commit(IndexWriter.java:3473) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) at org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.commit(IndexWriter.java:3457) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) at com/teneo/esa/common/textengine/TextIndexWriter.commit(TextIndexWriter.java:348) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) at com/teneo/esa/common/textengine/LocalTextIndexImpl.flush(LocalTextIndexImpl.java:483) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) at com/teneo/esa/common/textengine/LocalTextIndexImpl.commitDeletes(LocalTextIndexImpl.java:369) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) at com/teneo/esa/common/textengine/LocalTextIndexImpl.deleteByIDs(LocalTextIndexImpl.java:280) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) at com/teneo/esa/common/textengine/TextHelper.removeEsaDocIDs(TextHelper.java:298) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) at com/teneo/esa/indexer/EmailBatchCommitter.deleteDerivedFTDocs(EmailBatchCommitter.java:2004) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) 2013-09-30 02:39:52,467 INFO [STDOUT] (indexer:46030) at com/teneo/esa/indexer/EmailBatchCommitter.commitPartitionDocuments(EmailBatchCommitter.java:1291)[optimized] Would appreciate any help on this. Thanks, Saurabh