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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-648:
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OK I ran some basic benchmarks to test the effect on indexing of
varying the ZIP compression level from 0-9.
Lucene currently hardwires compression level at 9 (= BEST).
I found a decent text corpus here:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/koehn/publications/europarl
I ran all tests on the "Portuguese-English" data set, which is total
of 327.5 MB of plain text across 976 files.
I just ran the demo IndexFiles, modified to add the file contents as
only a compressed stored field (ie not indexed). Note that this
"amplifies" the cost of compression because in a real setting there
would also be a number of indexed fields.
I didn't change any of the default merge factor settings. I'm running
on Ubuntu Linux 6.06, single CPU (2.4 ghz Pentium 4) desktop machine with
index stored on an internal ATA hard drive.
I first tested indexing time with and without the patch from
LUCENE-629 here:
old version: 648.7 sec
patched version: 145.5 sec
We clearly need to get that patch committed & released! Compressed
fields are far more costly than they ought to be, and people are now
using this (as of 1.9 release).
So, then I ran all subsequent tests with the above patch applied. All
numbers are avg. of 3 runs:
Level Index time (sec) Index size (MB)
None 65.3 322.3
0 92.3 322.3
1 80.8 128.8
2 80.6 122.2
3 81.3 115.8
4 89.8 111.3
5 104.0 106.2
6 121.8 103.6
7 131.7 103.1
8 144.8 102.9
9 145.5 102.9
Quick conclusions:
* There is indeed a substantial variance when you change the compression
level.
* The "sweet spot" above seems to be around 4 or 5 -- should we
change the default from 9?
* I would still say we should make it possible for Lucene users to
change the compression level?
> Allow changing of ZIP compression level for compressed fields
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>
> Key: LUCENE-648
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-648
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Index
> Affects Versions: 1.9, 2.0.0, 2.1, 2.0.1
> Reporter: Michael McCandless
> Priority: Minor
>
> In response to this thread:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/lucene/java-user/38810
> I think we should allow changing the compression level used in the call to
> java.util.zip.Deflator in FieldsWriter.java. Right now it's hardwired to
> "best":
> compressor.setLevel(Deflater.BEST_COMPRESSION);
> Unfortunately, this can apparently cause the zip library to take a very long
> time (10 minutes for 4.5 MB in the above thread) and so people may want to
> change this setting.
> One approach would be to read the default from a Java system property, but,
> it seems recently (pre 2.0 I think) there was an effort to not rely on Java
> System properties (many were removed).
> A second approach would be to add static methods (and static class attr) to
> globally set the compression level?
> A third method would be in document.Field class, eg a
> setCompressLevel/getCompressLevel? But then every time a document is created
> with this field you'd have to call setCompressLevel since Lucene doesn't have
> a global Field schema (like Solr).
> Any other ideas / prefererences for either of these methods?
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