Is it possible a large merge is running? You can turn on IndexWriter.setInfoStream to see more details about what IW is doing, including merging.
Mike On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Siraj Haider <si...@jobdiva.com> wrote: > Hello guys, > We have a dilemma on a few of our lucene machines. We have a tomcat running > our servlets for searching and indexing on each of these machines. Its a > live index where documents are being added to index while online searches > are also being served at the same time. Indexing happens every 5 minutes > and if there are new documents added, the index gets reopend. For most of > the times the performance is very good, but under heavy load of searches, > the machine goes non-responsive. We can still telnet to machine and see > that cpu-wise its not bad, but I/O seems to be a problem. Is there anything > we might be doing to cause it or anything that we can do to avoid it. I > know I did not provide a lot of information about how we are indexing and > searching but I will answer any question anyone might have. > > thanks in advance > -siraj > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
