Just in case norms info cannot be spared, note that since Lucene 2.1 norms are maintained in a single file, no matter how many fields there are.
However due to a bug in 2.1 this did not prevent the too many open files problem. This bug was already fixed but not yet released. For more details on this fix see LUCENE-821. Doron Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 27/04/2007 17:25:08: > > : >From what I read in the Lucene docs, these .f<m> files store the > : normalization factor for the corresponding field. What exactly is this > : used for and more importantly, can this be disabled so that the files > : are not created in the first place? > > field norms are primarily used for length normalization, but they also > store field and document boosts ... more info can be found in the scoring > and Similarity docs. > > if you don't care about these things, there is an omitNorms option on the > Field class that can be used to not only reduce the number of open > files you need, but also make your index smaller on disk, and reduce your > memory usage. (i believe it was added in 1.9) > > -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
