: I'm a novice with this, so I'll appreciate your patience. : I'm using a batch program for doing the additions and deletions while a : separate web app for searching. How can I ensure that these two different : apps (one making the changes to index and the other just searching) don't : run into each others' paths? Or am I ignorant of something really basic : here?
if both of these applications are running on the same machine, then the built in locking mechanims in the Lucene code base should prevent any errors from happening unless you circumvent the locks (you would have to go out of your way to do this). if the applications are on seperate machines writing to some shared disk hen that may be the source of your problem -- the lock files are by default stored in the system tmp directly, even if you changed the location of the lock files (the mailing list archive has info on how to do this) there is no garuntee that it will work because some "remote filesystems" (notably NFS) have issues with garunteeing a consistent "view" of the index directroy (again, google can fill you in) your best bet (assumming i'm right and you are working on two differnet machines) is to use a copy the index to local disk i na new location (seperate from the "old" index crrently in use) open a new searcher, and then swap the refrences. This is (approximately) the approach taken by Solr. If i'm wrong about the multiple machine thing, then i have no idea what's causing your problem .. cna you post some more details -- preferably including some stack traces from the various types of crashes (you said both the indexing app and the searching app occasional crash) -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
