Trust Yonik, and trust me when I say this, please. I, too, would guess that you'll need more than 1 machine (that's what Yonik meant by distributed search) to handle search against a 2B doc index, even if docs are small.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Saturday, March 8, 2008 3:32:56 PM Subject: RE: MultiSearcher to overcome the Integer.MAX_VALUE limit > Right... but trust me, you really wouldn't want to. You need > distributed search at that level anyway. Hm, 2 billion small docs are not so much. Why do I need distributed search and what exactly do you means with distributed search? Multiple IndexSearchers? Multiple processes? Multiple machines? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]