If your index is increasing in size so fast, you should start thinking about sharding your index (breaking it into multiple smaller indices that each fits on its server) and searching across them (aka distributed search).
Yes, Lucene can handle millions of records if run on adequate hardware and if used correctly. Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Ganesh - yahoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 12:53:19 AM > Subject: Re: Exception while doing sorting > > My index is growing by 1 million records per day. How much memory do i need > to increase. > > What kind of sorting algorithm being used in Lucene. Is this efficient > enough to handle millions of records. > > Whether we could do sorting using our own algorithm? > > Regards > Ganesh > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Fuad Efendi" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 7:28 PM > Subject: Re: Exception while doing sorting > > > Increase memory. > > Lucene uses FieldCache for sorting on non-tokenized field and tries to > maintain fields from all your 4 millions documents, even if you need > to sort only 4000 docs. > ============== > http://www.tokenizer.org/bot.html > > > Quoting Ganesh - yahoo : > > > Hello all, > > > > I am have indexed more than 4 million documents. My query fetches > > 300,000 hits. If i perform sorting on any field, then tomcat reports > > out of memory exception. > > Sometimes the query results may be around 1000, but sorting on any > > field might take more than 30 - 50 secs. > > > > I don't know what's going wrong. > > > > My index searcher is static object and it is getting refreshed every > > minute. JSP pages directly calls the index searcher object and performs > > search. > > > > Regards > > Ganesh > > > > > > Send instant messages to your online friends > > http://in.messenger.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
