Supposed I want to index 500,000 documents (average document size is 4kBs). Let's assume I create a single index and that the index is static (I'm not going to add any new documents to it). I would guess the index would be around 2GB.
Now, I do searches against this on a somewhat beefy machine (2GB RAM, Core 2 Duo, Windows XP). Does anyone have any idea what kinds of search times I can expect for moderately complicated searches (several sets of keywords against several fields)? Are there things I can do to increase search performance? For example, does Lucene like lots of RAM, lots of CPU, faster HD, all of the above? Am I better splitting the index file into 2 (N?) versions and search on multiple indexes simultaneously? Anyone have any thoughts about this? Scott
