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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-3425:
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Also, a quick win on trunk is to use IOCtx's FlushInfo.estimatedSegmentSize to
decide up front whether to try caching or not.
Ie if the to-be-flushed segment is too large we should not cache it.
> NRT Caching Dir to allow for exact memory usage, better buffer allocation and
> "global" cross indices control
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> Key: LUCENE-3425
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3425
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: core/index
> Reporter: Shay Banon
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> A discussion on IRC raised several improvements that can be made to NRT
> caching dir. Some of the problems it currently has are:
> 1. Not explicitly controlling the memory usage, which can result in overusing
> memory (for example, large new segments being committed because refreshing is
> too far behind).
> 2. Heap fragmentation because of constant allocation of (probably promoted to
> old gen) byte buffers.
> 3. Not being able to control the memory usage across indices for multi index
> usage within a single JVM.
> A suggested solution (which still needs to be ironed out) is to have a
> BufferAllocator that controls allocation of byte[], and allow to return
> unused byte[] to it. It will have a cap on the size of memory it allows to be
> allocated.
> The NRT caching dir will use the allocator, which can either be provided (for
> usage across several indices) or created internally. The caching dir will
> also create a wrapped IndexOutput, that will flush to the main dir if the
> allocator can no longer provide byte[] (exhausted).
> When a file is "flushed" from the cache to the main directory, it will return
> all the currently allocated byte[] to the BufferAllocator to be reused by
> other "files".
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