Re: Search performance under high load

2005-04-07 Thread David Spencer
Yura Smolsky wrote: Hello, mark. mh> 2) My app uses long queries, some of which include mh> very common terms. Using the "MoreLikeThis" query to mh> drop common terms drastically improved performance. If mh> your "killer queries" are long ones you could spot mh> them and service them with a MoreLik

Re: Search performance under high load

2005-04-07 Thread mark harwood
In addition to the comments already made, I recently recently found these changes to be useful: 1) Swapping out Sun 1.4.2_05 JVM for BEA's JRockit JVM halved my query times. (In both cases did not tweak any default JVM settings other than -Xmx to ensure adequate memory allocation). 2) My app use

Re: Search performance under high load

2005-04-07 Thread Paul Elschot
Daniel, On Thursday 07 April 2005 00:54, Chris Hostetter wrote: > > : Queries: The query strings are of highly differing complexity, from > : simple x:y to long queries involving conjunctions, disjunctions and > : wildecard queries. > : > : 90% of the queries run brilliantly. Problem is that 10%

Re: Search performance under high load

2005-04-06 Thread David Spencer
Daniel Herlitz wrote: 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: ~

Re: Search performance under high load

2005-04-06 Thread Chris Hostetter
: Queries: The query strings are of highly differing complexity, from : simple x:y to long queries involving conjunctions, disjunctions and : wildecard queries. : : 90% of the queries run brilliantly. Problem is that 10% of the queries : (simple or not) take a long time, on average more that 10 se