Re: Lucene 3.6.0 Index Size

2012-10-26 Thread kiwi clive
index is closed. Thanks for the advice, I need to revisit the merging section of the application. Clive From: Vitaly Funstein To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 8:13 PM Subject: Re: Lucene 3.6.0 Index Size One thing to keep in

Re: Lucene 3.6.0 Index Size

2012-10-26 Thread Vitaly Funstein
One thing to keep in mind is that the default merge policy has changed in 3.6 from 2.3.2 (I'm almost certain of that). So it's just a hunch but you may have some unmerged segments left over at the end. Try calling IndexWriter.close(true) after you're done indexing. On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:50 AM

Lucene 3.6.0 Index Size

2012-10-26 Thread kiwi clive
Hello. We have an index that when creted using lucene2.3.2, has a size of about 4G. Creating the same index (with the same parameters) with lucene 3.6.0 results in an 11G index. Could someone shed some light into why the index is so much larger, given the same data and the same parameters? I