Re: best strategy to deal with large index file

2005-12-16 Thread Dave Kor
On 12/17/05, Jeff Liang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks for the reply. > I'm indexing emails. Fields are the common attribute on emails: > subject, content, attachment, message size, date, sender, recipients, > etc. The index is a few GB. Is there a good practice to keep the index > file siz

RE: best strategy to deal with large index file

2005-12-16 Thread Jeff Liang
Jeff -Original Message- From: Dan Funk Sent: Fri 12/16/2005 7:12 PM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Cc: Subject: Re: best strategy to deal with large index file Are there specific queries that cause the out of memory pr

Re: best strategy to deal with large index file

2005-12-16 Thread Dan Funk
Are there specific queries that cause the out of memory problem? Or will any query do it? How large is the index? MultiSearcher allows you to search over multiple indexes, and is well supported throughout the API. How you split your indexes is depends on what you want to achieve. There are many