I am noticing that the Tridion Content Manager Search Host is consistently running at higher than expected CPU and Memory.
My understanding is that Tridion Content Manager Search Host is just a Tomcat instance hosting SOLR, so why would it require so much CPU and memory?
Looking in %TRIDION_HOME%\Search\solr-data\tridion\index the data files inside are constantly churning, changing name and size
The culprit was Sync-TcmSearchIndex. It was scheduled to run every evening.
This was resulting in a huge Search Queue (items or be indexed) and an ever churning search index
Sync-TcmSearchIndex is now disabled, and will only be ran as required e.g. out of date search index due to environment sync
To remove items from the queue, you can run Remove-TcmQueueMessages followed by the corresponding queue name:
PublishQueue
Purge publish queue messages.
DeployQueue
Purge content deployment messages.
SearchQueue
Purge search queue messages.
WorkflowAgentQueue
Purge workflow queue messages.
BatchQueue
Purge batch queue messages.
You can approach Reindexing Search Queue in another manner. As following documentation states, you can execute reindex PER Publication.
That being said, you can schedule every publication separately at certain intervals to decrease total number of messages. The number of process items will still be the same, only difference is that it will be evenly spread at certain period of time.
