>>Actually, I am not using Lucene directly, but a wrapper called compass
I don't know what controls it offers you then. One option which could offer a speed up is to raise the minimum quality match threshold above the default of 0.5 and use a query string like this: cityName:London~0.8 This would reduce the number of alternative terms considered and therefore the query time. --- Sami Dalouche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > 1) Actually, I am not using Lucene directly, but a > wrapper called > compass. I am using the find() method of the > CompassSession, which code > is : > public CompassHits find(String query) throws > CompassException { > return > createQueryBuilder().queryString(query).toQuery().hits(); > } > And all of these objects are pure wrappers around > lucene equivalents, > nothing more. > > > 2) What I am timing is only the find call : > -- start timer > CompassHits hits = compassSession.find("cityName:"+ > name+"~"); > -- stop timer > > 3) I am not sorting anything, but lucene is > returning the hits by > relevance. Does this count as sorting ? > > 4) I tried to time the thing for ~10 queries, and > the results are > roughly the same. Can go down to 2 seconds, which is > still way too > much... > > Thanks for helping > sami Dalouche > > On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 13:58 -0700, Chris Hostetter > wrote: > > : Fuzzy searching against this property takes > around 3 seconds, which is > > : way too much for what I plan to do, so I am > considering the possible > > > > whenever anyone has a question about how to speed > up a search, and the > > current amount of time the search takes is more > then a second, there are a > > few questions i allways want to ask: > > > > 1) what method exactly on the Searcher interface > are you using the > > execute the search? > > 2) what exactly are you timing? (the time the > search method call takes?, > > the time it takes you to iterate over the > results? etc...) > > 3) are you sorting by any particular field? > > 4) are you reusing the Searcher instance for more > then one query? are > > you timing more then one query and taking the > average? > > > > > > -Hoss > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > > ___________________________________________________________ The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]