Questions like these are always hard to answer well. Actually, no, they are easy, right Erik: "It depends" ;)
Just kidding...partially. Anyhow, you should ask a few more questions then: - what is the response latency? (average, median, Nth percentile...) - are stored fields involved, if so how many and how big are they? - what kind of queries are involves (some are costlier than others) - what is the search rate? ... Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 5:06:04 PM Subject: Biggest index Hi, I have some question about the index size on a single machine: What is your biggest index you use in production? Do you use MultiReader/Searcher? What hardware do you need to serve it? What kind of application is it? Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]