[Archivesspace_Users_Group] out of memory errors during reindexing, 1.5 RC3

Thu Jul 21 17:36:49 EDT 2016

Hi all,

For those experiencing indexing issues while attempting to upgrade to v1.5.0 please start by trying the suggestion at:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/archivesspace/uqDXPUv-yCo

Be sure to blow away the Solr index before triggering the upgrade so that it's starting from scratch, not working on top of an existing index.

Best,

Mark

Mark Cooper
Technical Lead, Hosting and Support
LYRASIS
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skype: mark_c_cooper
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From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org <archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> on behalf of Galligan, Patrick <PGalligan at rockarch.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 12:48:34 PM
To: Archivesspace Users Group
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] out of memory errors during reindexing, 1.5 RC3

Hi all,

I’ve just tried to index again, with no luck. Same error that we’re running out of memory, despite high memory allocations.

This is a pretty big blocker for us. We were hoping to migrate to 1.5 in early August, but we obviously can’t if the index never finishes successfully.

Patrick Galligan
Rockefeller Archive Center
Assistant Digital Archivist
914-366-6386

From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Dallas Pillen
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 3:50 PM
To: Archivesspace Users Group
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] out of memory errors during reindexing, 1.5 RC3

Hi all,

Just want to jump in to say that we have been experiencing the same issue during a test migration to 1.5 RC3.

For context, we're migrating 2,910 EADs and in the process creating about 850,000 archival objects and 43,000 top containers. We have also not used the barcoder plugin (though we have added temporary fake barcodes to top containers in our EADs).

Dallas

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Vandermillen, Michael <michael_vandermillen at harvard.edu<mailto:michael_vandermillen at harvard.edu>> wrote:
Thanks Noah! Yes, it always happens in the middle of archival objects, then starts over. We never ran the barcode tool, so that’s not the issue, at least for us. Hopefully we can get more info from Lyrasis.

Michael

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Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 3:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] out of memory errors during reindexing, 1.5 RC3

Michael,

I’ve experienced this exact problem when running test migrations to 1.5RC3.  Increasing the heap size never helped either.  From examining my log file (archivesspace.out), it looks like the re-indexing process runs out of memory (typically when indexing archival object records) and then just starts indexing at archival object #1 again.  It seems to continue in this loop indefinitely.  To successfully migrate to 1.5RC3, I had to stop and start the app several times until it finally indexed all the archival objects.

No matter how high I set the heap size, the app seems to jump up to that limit shortly after starting it.

I communicated this problem to Lyrasis and there was some suspicion it was caused by running the barcoder plugin over my entire repository.

FWIW, we’ve also experience out of memory issues in our production instance during periodic indexing (not a complete re-index).  It seems like we have to restart the app every couple of weeks due to memory issues.

I’m curious if others have experienced these same memory problems too.  Thanks for raising the issue.

-Noah

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David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] out of memory errors during reindexing, 1.5 RC3

Hi,

As we import more and more finding aids into our archivesspace test instance, I get out of memory errors when trying to reindex (by deleting indexer_state and solr_index):

SEVERE: auto commit error...:java.lang.IllegalStateException: this writer hit an OutOfMemoryError; cannot commit

For 1.4x (and 1.5 RC 1), we had aspace heap set at the default (1024m) and could successfully reindex, after loading 4000+ finding aids. We have now loaded 5000+ finding aids, but even when I increase available heap to 8 gig (more doesn’t seem reasonable), I still get out of memory errors during a reindex (using 1.5 RC3).

Has anyone else run into this? Any suggestions?

Michael

Michael Vandermillen
Digital Library Software Engineer
Harvard University IT

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