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    Problems with indexing from lack of memory

    • Article Type: General
    • Product: Primo
    • Product Version: 2

    Description:
    Customer reports indexing issues post upgrade, and believes that an increase of memory for java is needed.

    The error

    'Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space'

    appears in the search agent after

    'warmup completed' and before 'Building frbrgroup cache' message.

    The cause for this is most likely to be a huge number of scopes created erroneously in the database (many thousands). Scopes have a high memory consumption, and not so many are expected on a single installation. Primo does not require the use of so many scopes.

    This can happen when the search/searchscope normalization rule is defined to create a unique scope (for example, from the sourcerecordid). The DB will then contain a unique scope per each record.

    Resolution:
    Check every set of NR in the search/searchscope section – that extraneous, unintended scopes are not getting created.


    From issue resolution:


    • Article last edited: 10/8/2013