Nope, never even noticed it until now. That's the right URL though,
typo and all....

Someday I may even fix it <G>...

Thanks,
Erick

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Dmitry Kan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Erick,
>
> Is typo in the title on purpose?
>
>
> On 19 June 2013 15:09, Erick Erickson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> OK, I seem to have stalled on this. Over part of the winter, I put
>> together a Swing-based program to help estimate Solr/Lucene memory
>> requirements, with all the usual caveats see:
>> https://github.com/ErickErickson/SolrMemoryEsitmator.
>>
>> I have notes to myself that it's still deficient in several areas:
>> FieldValueCache estimates
>> tlog requirements
>> Memory required to re-open a searcher
>> Position and term vector memory requirements
>> And whatever I haven't thought about yet.
>>
>> Of course it builds on Grant's spreadsheet (reads "steals from it
>> shamelessly!") I'm hoping to have a friendlier interface. And _of
>> course_ I'd be willing to donate it to Solr as a util/contrib/whatever
>> if it fits.
>>
>> So, what I'm about here is a few things:
>>
>> > Anyone who wants to try it feel free. The build instructions are at the
>> > above, but the short form is to clone it, "ant jar" and "java -jar
>> > dist/estimator.jar". Enter some field info and hit the "Add/Save" button
>> > then hit the "Dump calcs" button to see what it does currently.
>>
>> It also saves the estimates away in a file and shows all the steps it
>> goes through to perform the calculations. It'll also make rudimentary
>> field definitions from the entered data. You can come back to it later
>> and add to what you've already done.
>>
>> > Make any improvements you see fit, particular to flesh out the
>> > deficiencies listed above.
>>
>> > Anyone who has, you know, graphic design/Swing skills please feel free
>> > to make it better. I'm a newbie as far as using Swing is concerned, and the
>> > way I align buttons and checkboxes is pretty hacky. But it works....
>>
>> > Any suggestions anyone wants to make. Suggestions in code are nicest of
>> > course, but algorithms for calculating, say, position and tv memory usage
>> > would be great as well! Isolated code snippets that I could incorporate
>> > would be great too.
>>
>> > Any info where I've gotten the calculations wrong or don't show enough
>> > info to actually figure out whether they're correct or not.
>>
>> Note that the goal for this is to give a rough idea of memory
>> requirements and be easy to use. The spreadsheet is a bit daunting to
>> someone who knows nothing about Solr so this might be an easier way to
>> get into it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Erick
>>
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