Paul, I tried this but it ran out of memory trying to read the 500Mb .fdt file. I tried various values for MAX_BBUF, but it still ran out of memory (I'm using -Xmx1600M, which is the jvm's maximum value (v1.5)) I'll give NioFSDirectory a try.
Thanks, Peter On 1/26/06, Paul Elschot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 January 2006 20:51, Peter Keegan wrote: > > The index is non-compound format and optimized. Yes, I did try > > MMapDirectory, but the index is too big - 3.5 GB (1.3GB is term vectors) > > > > Peter > > > You could also give this a try: > > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-283 > > Regards, > Paul Elschot > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >