Hi Today we limit the RAM buffer size to 2048. I was wondering why, until Mark referenced me to that issue ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1995) where someone complained about it as well, but I didn't find a reason to why it's limited. I mean, I understand it's probably an int is used somewhere, but all the issue says here ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1995?focusedCommentId=12767757&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#action_12767757) is "Maybe someday Lucene will allow a larger RAM buffer than 2GB".
Why "maybe"? :) I set up a benchmark run on a new machine I got, 4xQuad, 64GB RAM, and turns out I can't really take advantage of all that RAM ... :). So I don't mind to look at the code, but I guess since Mike and a bunch of other smarter people were on that issue, there is probably something I need to know before I set to change it? Appreciate your thoughts on that. Today, more and more machines come w/ more than 2GB ... Shai
