Server is timing out because of Sunspot-Solr reindex'ing problem

Not too sure how to debug this. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Basically, I just did a large commit, and now my server can't boot up because of a Sunspot-solr issue.

I notice it when I try to manually reindex.

This is the return :

Processing MainController#index (for 69.114.195.64 at 2011-08-02 06:47:21) [GET]
  Parameters: {"action"=>"index", "controller"=>"main"}
  HomepageBackground Load (0.2ms)   SELECT * FROM `homepage_backgrounds` 
  Homep开发者_开发知识库ageBackground Columns (23.4ms)   SHOW FIELDS FROM `homepage_backgrounds`
  HomepageBackground Load (0.8ms)   SELECT * FROM `homepage_backgrounds` ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1
  SQL (30.2ms)   SHOW TABLES
  Organization Columns (1.8ms)   SHOW FIELDS FROM `organizations`
  Solr Select (Error)   {:q=>"*:*", :start=>0, :fq=>["type:Organization", "published_b:true", "updated_at_d:[2010\\-08\\-02T13\\:47\\:21Z TO *]"], :rows=>1000000}

Timeout::Error (execution expired):
  /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:64:in `rbuf_fill'
  vendor/gems/right_http_connection-1.2.4/lib/net_fix.rb:51:in `rbuf_fill'
  /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:116:in `readuntil'

UPDATE

Ok so I reverted and rebased to the last working commit. And I still got the same error. So then I ps aux | grep solr, and found five instances of solr running. Strange, I thought, and killed every single one of them. Blam server was back up and running strong. So now I'm trying my new commits again, but with my eye on these feral sunspot instances.

This problem was caused by feral sunspot-solr instances running amuck. Nothing kill -9 couldn't handle. Problem solved.