Hi, Are you using raw Lucene or Solr? If Solr, your query is probably cached in the query results cache (see your solrconfig.xml).
Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ ----- Original Message ---- > From: Yang <teddyyyy...@gmail.com> > To: general@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Tue, April 12, 2011 1:35:19 PM > Subject: is query cache persisted? > > I was trying to trace through the calls in Lucene, > and when I invoked the same query for the second time, scorer.score() > is no longer called anymore, > and the query returns very fast. > > this seems to be even this case after I restarted tomcat, so I'm > wondering: is the query cache persisted in Lucene? > if so, how could I purge it? > > Thanks a lot > Yang >