How about using RAM disk and FSDirectory? It would be not so fast as RAMDirectory, but will be fast enough.
On 7/8/05, Chris Lamprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're under an x86_64 machine (AMD opteron, for instance), you may > be able to set your JVM heap this large. But if you have 6GB RAM, you > might try keeping your JVM small (under 1GB), and letting linux's > filesystem cache do the work. Lucene searches are often CPU-bound > (during the search phase anyway) and loading into a RAMDirectory won't > help here. It's the second "phase" of search -- pulling all the > lucene Documents from disk -- that's often I/O bound, and can benefit > from being in RAM. > > -chris > > On 8 Jul 2005 00:04:27 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it possible to use a RAMDirectory to load a 5 GB index into RAM on Linux? > > I have access to a server with 6 GB of RAM and will try it next week but > > I've heard that Java on Linux may only support up to 2 GB of RAM per > > process. > > Anyone already tried this? > > > > Thanks. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Regards, Cheolgoo Kang --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
