Re: Performance and index size (rephrased question)

2011-03-31 Thread Erick Erickson
5-10 G indexes are pretty small by Lucene/Solr standards, so given reasonable hardware resources this should be no problem. That said, only measurement will nail this down. But an often-used rule of thumb is that you need to consider some better strategies in the 40G range. CAUTION: you haven't sp

Performance and index size (rephrased question)

2011-03-31 Thread sol myr
Hi, I'm rephrasing a previous performance question, in light of new data... I have a Lucene index of about 0.5 GB. Currently performance is good - up to 200 milliseconds per search (with complex boolean queries, but never retrieving more than 200 top results). The question: how much can the index