On Apr 14, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Simon Willnauer wrote: > 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? >
Definitely! Docs good. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
