[pylucene-dev] Re[2]: urgent help

[Andi Vajda]

> sometimes this error occurs:
> GC Warning: Header allocation failed: Dropping block.
>
> what does it mean?

I've never seen this error. You could try asking the java at gcc.gnu.org mailing 
list or, better yet, the gc-specific mailing list: gc at linux.hpl.hp.com.

Andi..

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> AV> There is a thread currently on the Lucene user list titled 'Opening up one
> AV> large index takes 940M or memory' that may bring some answers to your problem.
> AV> There may also be ways to increase the amount of memory gcj gets to use, I
> AV> would look on the java at gcc.gnu.org mailing list archives for this.
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> AV> Andi..
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> AV> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Yura Smolsky wrote:
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>>> Hello, Andi.
>>>
>>> I have index of 51Gb. When I try to create IndexSearcher with
>>> FSDirectory of this index, I receive exception:
>>>
>>> GC Warning: Out of Memory!  Returning NIL!
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>  File "./RemoteSearcherServer.py", line 275, in ?
>>>    server.processCommandLine(sys.argv)
>>>  File "/home/search/lib/myCORBA.py", line 81, in processCommandLine
>>>    self.start()
>>>  File "/home/search/lib/myCORBA.py", line 51, in start
>>>    self.setUp()
>>>  File "./RemoteSearcherServer.py", line 240, in setUp
>>>    self.objServant = RemoteSearcher_i(num, path, luceneSearcher)
>>>  File "./RemoteSearcherServer.py", line 132, in __init__
>>>    luceneSearcher._reloadIndex()
>>>  File "./RemoteSearcherServer.py", line 18, in _reloadIndex
>>>    self.searcher = IndexSearcher(self.directory)
>>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PyLucene.py", line 2266, in __init__
>>>    newobj = _PyLucene.new_IndexSearcher(*args)
>>> ValueError: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
>>>   <<No stacktrace available>>
>>>
>>> Why?
>>>
>>> Yura Smolsky.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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