So if you use sort, doing one sort after creating the index might be useful.
Yes, this is a good way to pre-load lots of things.
For reading relevant parts of the index into OS caches, I'd rather use the most commonly searched terms, than the most frequent ones.
If the index was modified on the same machine (with additions and deletions) but not optimized, then the most of the cache should still be intact, since most of the files in the index will not have changed. So performing more than a single query is probably overkill.
Doug
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