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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-843:
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>> The actual HEAP RAM usage is quite a bit more
>> stable with the patch, especially with term vectors
>> & stored fields enabled. I think this is because the
>> patch creates far less garbage for GC to periodically
>> reclaim. I think this also means you could push your
>> RAM buffer size even higher to get better performance.
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> For KinoSearch, the sweet spot seems to be a buffer of around 16 MB
> when benchmarking with the Reuters corpus on my G4 laptop. Larger
> than that and things actually slow down, unless the buffer is large
> enough that it never needs flushing. My hypothesis is that RAM
> fragmentation is slowing down malloc/free. I'll be interested as to
> whether you see the same effect.
Interesting. OK I will run the benchmark across increasing RAM sizes
to see where the sweet spot seems to be!
> improve how IndexWriter uses RAM to buffer added documents
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>
> Key: LUCENE-843
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-843
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Index
> Affects Versions: 2.2
> Reporter: Michael McCandless
> Assigned To: Michael McCandless
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: LUCENE-843.patch, LUCENE-843.take2.patch,
> LUCENE-843.take3.patch, LUCENE-843.take4.patch
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>
> I'm working on a new class (MultiDocumentWriter) that writes more than
> one document directly into a single Lucene segment, more efficiently
> than the current approach.
> This only affects the creation of an initial segment from added
> documents. I haven't changed anything after that, eg how segments are
> merged.
> The basic ideas are:
> * Write stored fields and term vectors directly to disk (don't
> use up RAM for these).
> * Gather posting lists & term infos in RAM, but periodically do
> in-RAM merges. Once RAM is full, flush buffers to disk (and
> merge them later when it's time to make a real segment).
> * Recycle objects/buffers to reduce time/stress in GC.
> * Other various optimizations.
> Some of these changes are similar to how KinoSearch builds a segment.
> But, I haven't made any changes to Lucene's file format nor added
> requirements for a global fields schema.
> So far the only externally visible change is a new method
> "setRAMBufferSize" in IndexWriter (and setMaxBufferedDocs is
> deprecated) so that it flushes according to RAM usage and not a fixed
> number documents added.
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