Improve contrib/benchmark for testing near-real-time search performance
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                 Key: LUCENE-2050
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2050
             Project: Lucene - Java
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: contrib/benchmark
            Reporter: Michael McCandless
            Assignee: Michael McCandless
            Priority: Minor
             Fix For: 3.0


It's not easy to test NRT performance right now w/ contrib/benchmark.
I've made some initial fixes to improve this:

  * Added new '&', that can follow any task within a serial sequence,
    to "background" the task (just like a shell).  The test runs in
    the BG, and then at the end of all serial tasks, any still running
    BG tasks are stopped & joined.

  * Added WaitTask that simply waits; useful for controlling how long
    the BG'd tasks get to run.

  * Added RollbackIndex task, which is real handy for using a given
    index for an NRT test, doing a bunch of updates, then reverting it
    all so your next run uses the same starting index

  * Fixed the existing NearRealTimeReaderTask to simply periodically
    open the new reader (previously it was also running a fixed
    search), and removed its own threading (since & can do that
    now). It periodically wakes up, opens the new reader, and swaps it
    into the PerfRunData, at the schedule you specify.  I switched all
    usage of PerfRunData's get/setIndexReader APIs to use ref
    counting.

With these changes you can now make some very simple but powerful
algs, eg:

{code}
OpenIndex
{
  NearRealtimeReader(0.5) &
  # Warm
  Search
  { "Index1" AddDoc > : * : 100/sec &
  [ { "Search" Search > : * ] : 4 &
  Wait(30.0)
}
CloseReader
RollbackIndex
RepSumByName
{code}

This alg first opens the IndexWriter, then spawns the BG thread to
reopen the NRT reader twice per second, does one warming Search (in
the FG), spans a new thread to index documents at the rate of 100 per
second, then spawns 4 search threads that do as many searches as they
can.  We then wait for 30 seconds, then stop all the threads, revert
the index, and report.

The patch is a work in progress -- it generally works, but there're a
few nocommits, and, we may want to improve reporting (though I think
that's a separate issue).


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