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Posted to solr-user@lucene.apache.org by Xiaolu Zhao <xi...@oracle.com> on 2014/10/22 17:50:59 UTC
Difference between unloading of cores with LotsOfCores and unloading
a core with CoreAdmin
Hi All,
I am confused about the difference between unloading of cores with
LotsOfCores and unloading a core with CoreAdmin.
From my understanding of LotsOfCores, if one core is removed from
transient cache, it is pending to close, it means close all resources
allocated by the core if it is no longer in use, e.g. searcher,
updateHandler... While for unloading a core with CoreAdmin, this core
needs to be removed from the cores list, either ordinary cores list or
transient cores list, and cores locator will delete it. If this core is
loaded but not pending to close, it will be close.
Also, one more interesting thing is if I unload a core with CoreAdmin,
"core.properties" will be renamed "core.properties.unloaded". Then this
core cannot be found in the Solr API, and STATUS url won't return its
status as well. But with LotsOfCores, a core not in the transient cache
will still have "core.properties" and could be found through STATUS url,
though it is marked with "isLoaded=false".
Could anyone tells me the underlying mechanism for these two cases? Why
LotsOfCores could realize frequent unloading/loading of cores? Do cores
not in the transient cores still consume JVM memory, while unloaded
cores with CoreAdmin not?
Thanks,
Xiaolu