So, if I use one indexwriter instance to index one document, will it create a segment per document? How many files per segment get added if I use compound index file format?
Thanks, John On 4/23/06, Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you use the compound index file format (the default since Lucene > 1.4) you'll avoid the file descriptors issue. If you add 10 > documents at one time with a single IndexWriter, you will not create > 10 segments, only one segment (generally speaking, based on the > default segment factors). > > Erik > > > On Apr 23, 2006, at 9:48 AM, John Paige wrote: > > > Hello all, > > In my application it is required to build an index for each > > user. We need > > to add documents to the existing index frequently. > > We cannot use RAMDirectory to create a RAM index and merge it with the > > FSDirectory index later on based on the mergefactor. We need to add > > each > > document in the FSDirectory based index. > > We are afraid of getting into the "out of file descriptors" issue , > > so my > > question is, does lucene create a segment for each document that > > gets added > > to the FS based index i.e. will adding 10 documents to the existing > > index > > create 10 segments? > > > > Thanks, > > John > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
