Hi, I have recently read this post, I think it will give you some hint: http://blog.trifork.com/2011/11/21/simon-says-optimize-is-bad-for-you/
Probably the only advantage of having one huge segment is to use less disk space. Riccardo 2017-06-14 5:23 GMT+02:00 Tom Hirschfeld <tomhirschf...@gmail.com>: > Hello Fellow Lucene-eers, > > I have a lucene 6.5.1 app primarily indexed/searched via the > latLonDocValuesField. The index is built once, and has no writes/deletes in > production. At indexing time, we need to select the number of segments we > want to generate, and it is unclear to us how many segments we should > generate if we are optimizing for query speed. My intuition says that we > should only generate 1 segment as we will have no writes/deletes, but I > cannot find any hard evidence online to support or refute that hypothesis. > Does anyone here know how many segments we should use? 1 segment? 1 segment > per cpu in prod? 1 segment per core in prod? Something else? > > Best, > Tom Hirschfeld >
