Re: Best way to purposely corrupt an index?

2005-04-19 Thread Daniel Herlitz
on index and move ('mv') newly built index to its place. Notify using app that it should reopen its IndexReader. This relies on UNIX file handling semantics. (Can't say a word about Windows). Don't know if this applies at all to our situation, but it works for us. Danie

Re: Best way to purposely corrupt an index?

2005-04-19 Thread Daniel Herlitz
I would suggest you simply do not create unusable indexes. :-) Handle catch/throw/finally correctly and it should not present any problems. Assume one app builds the index, another uses it: try: Build the index in a separate catalogue. finally: remove ('rm') production index and move ('mv') newl

Re: Lucene bulk indexing

2005-04-19 Thread Daniel Herlitz
Agree. We run an index with about 2.5 million documents and around 30 fields. The indexing itself of 2 items should only take a few seconds on a reasonably fast machine. /D Kevin L. Cobb wrote: I think your bottleneck is most likely the DB hit. I assume by 2 products you mean 2 disti

Search performance under high load

2005-04-06 Thread Daniel Herlitz
Hi everybody, We have been using Lucene for about one year now with great success. Recently though the index has growed noticably and so has the number of searches. I was wondering if anyone would like to comment on these figures and say if it works for them? Index size: ~2.5 GB, on disk Number