Hi, > Ok, let me rephrase the question. Assuming the RAMDirectory holds > approximately 500 MB of data which needs to be written to the > filesystem, I'm afraid that sending this much data in one shot might > choke the NFS. Is there a parameter with FSDirectory with which I can > instruct Lucene to restrict the amount of data my application writes > to the filesystem per second.
There is no support for that, but if you add it, this may be a nice enhancement. > BTW, I could see maxMergeDocs, but not maxBufferedDocs with the > IndexWriter. Otis, is there really some parameter with that name? I > think maxMergeDocs may not work well here because the size of the > documents are pretty random, ranging from few hundred bytes to tens > of megabytes. That's the one. You are looking at 1.4.3, and I was referring to the new name of that parameter from 1.9-dev1. Otis > On 8/3/05, Otis Gospodnetic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While not exactly what you are describing, you can use one of the > > IndexWriter parameters (maxBufferedDocs) to control the size of the > > RAMDirectory that's used as a buffer during indexing. > > > > Otis > > > > --- Gopikrishnan Subramani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Is there a way I can control the IO bandwidth utilized by Lucene? > > > > > > Here is my scenario. RAMDirectory is used to build a in-memory > index > > > and finally the index size approaches a limit, the contents are > > > flushed to a FSDirectory. The index size could be approximately > 512 > > > MB. I'm a bit concerned that this might affect other NFS clients > of > > > the same NFS server, even if it's for a short period. To avoid > this I > > > would like to implement some sort of limit on the amount of data > > > transferred to the filesystem akin to the --bwlimit with the > rsync > > > command. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Gopi > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]