Re: RAMDirectory issue

2007-05-26 Thread Erick Erickson
Unless you have hard evidence that FSDirectories are too slow, you shouldn't IMO. The only place I've found RAMDirectories useful (so far) is in unit tests where I'm creating a very small in-memory index, running a few tests, and throwing it away. My first question for this is "why are you using

RAMDirectory issue

2007-05-26 Thread Walter Ferrara
I have an index on the disk. I'm using RAMDirectory( String ) to load index in RAM. I need from time to time to reload the index (when it is not current anymore), but I keep getting Out Of memory exception. Making the jvm heap bigger helps, but only allow more reloading, eventually it will throw t