Hi Maureen, If you are attempting to tune the indexing have a read of http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/03/05/lucene.html?page=2 . Otis has some excellent comparisons and explanations of the different optimization strategies available.
D. -----Original Message----- From: maureen tanuwidjaja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 February 2007 15:44 To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: about merge factor Hi all, I just wondering wheter is it sensible and possible if I have 660,000 documents to be indexed,I set the merge factor to 660,000 instead of the default value 10 (...and this means no merge while indexing) and later after closing the index,I use the IndexWriter to optimize/merge the whole index file... Thanks and Regards, Maureen --------------------------------- We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]