Paul, thanx for your suggestions. It seems like they mostly address the issue of improving search time, by eliminting the need to read the norm files from disk -- but the spead of the query isn't as big of a concern for us as the memory footprint.
As I understand it, the point when we are really pushing the limits on available memory come during optimize - particularly after user behavior has resulted in deleting/re-adding a large percentage of the documents in the index. : For really large indexes the norms might become a bottleneck for : when building them, but iirc this was improved recently. Our production system runs 1.4.3 .... perhaps we should try some stress tests with 1.9 and see what happens. -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
