RE: A model for predicting indexing memory costs?

2009-03-10 Thread Jon Loken
Hi, I haven't followed the whole thread, so pardon me if I am off topic. In terms of OutOfMemoryExceptions, why not attempt to alleviate this in your code, rather than overly relying on garbage collection. On other words: set big objects to null when you are finished with them, in particular

concise definition of Lucene score?

2008-09-03 Thread Jon Loken
Hi all, I have attempted to find a concise definition of how the Lucene score is calculated, something that can be understood by most people. The information I found is accurate, but not particularly concise. http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Lucene-trunk/javadoc//org/apac

RE: Wildcard and Literal Searches combined

2008-06-24 Thread Jon Loken
Hi, I posed a similar question on 09 May 08. The response was as below. I did not go down this route however, as a wild carded 'exact' phrase is in a way contradictory. Regards Jon Hi, Here's a searchable mailing list archive: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/lucene/java-user/ As

RE: Wildcard and Literal Searches combined

2008-06-24 Thread Jon Loken
Our approach is: If the keyword is a single word, then append the star (e.g. replace - replace*) If the keyword is a phrase containing one of more spaces, then it is treated as an exact phrase (e.g. replace this - 'replace this') Regards Jon -Original Message- From: mick l

Wild carded phrases

2008-05-09 Thread Jon Loken
Hi all, First of all, well done to the implementers of Lucene. The performance is incredible! We get search results within 20-40 ms on an index about 1.5GB. I could not find a Lucene maillist search engine, something I am a bit surprised about! My question is how I can implement wild carded