On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Michael McCandless <[email protected]> > Date: April 5, 2011 5:46:13 AM EDT > To: [email protected] > Cc: Simon Willnauer <[email protected]>, > [email protected], [email protected] > Subject: Re: Lucene Merge failing on Open Files > Reply-To: [email protected] > > Yeah, that mergeFactor is way too high and will cause > too-many-open-files (if the index has enough segments). > > This is one of the things that has always bothered me about Merge Factor. > We state what the lower bound is, but we don't doc the upper bound. > Should we even allow higher values? Of course, how does one pick the > cutoff? I've seen up to about 100 be effective. But 3000 is a bit high > (although, who knows what the future will hold)
grant, we can at least add some documentation no? simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
