Re: What is the advantage of setting using compund file to false

2006-10-10 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 10/10/06, Simon Willnauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On the other hand, the advantage of compound file appears in searching. In my testing from some time ago, this wasn't the case. non-compound indexes were faster to search too. If you get too many open files, - configure your OS to increa

Re: What is the advantage of setting using compund file to false

2006-10-10 Thread Doron Cohen
A bit of clarification: Lucene index is made of multiple "segments". Compound format: stores each segment in a single file - less files created/opened. Not-compound format: stores each segment in multi-files - more files created/opened. Not-compound is likely to be faster for indexing. Optimizing t

Re: What is the advantage of setting using compund file to false

2006-10-10 Thread Supriya Kumar Shyamal
Hi Simon, Thanks for your very good detailed explanation, it really cleared my doubts. Thanks once again, Regards supriya Simon Willnauer wrote: Hi, In Lucene there are two types of index structure compound index and multi-file index. In multi-file index, when new documents are inserted t

Re: What is the advantage of setting using compund file to false

2006-10-10 Thread Simon Willnauer
Hi, In Lucene there are two types of index structure compound index and multi-file index. In multi-file index, when new documents are inserted to an index, they are stored in a separate segment; this causes increase of files in an index structure. Therefore, multi-file index has more files than

What is the advantage of setting using compund file to false

2006-10-10 Thread Supriya Kumar Shyamal
Hello All, I have question regarding the use of Compound file fo rindex, what is the advantage & disadvantage of enabling use of compound file(which is default I think) or disabling the useo of it. Thanks, supriya -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards Supriya Kumar Shyamal Software Develope