Hi Erick,
Thanks for the response. Replies inline.

Erick Erickson wrote:
The very first question is always "are you opening a new searcher
each time you query"? But you've looked at the Wiki so I assume not.
This question is closely tied to what kind of latency you can tolerate.

A few more details, please. What's slow? Queries? Indexing?
Indexing. Again, it is not slow. It is just faster with two separate indexers in two threads.
How slow? 100ms? 100s? What are your target times and
what are you seeing?
With a single indexer in a single thread, I can index about 20,000 event objects per second. With 2 thread and 2 indexers, it is close to 50,000. :-)
How big is your index? 100M? 100G? What kind of VM
parameters are you specifying?
The index will have about 20mil entries. The size of the index lands up being about 500M.
I start the VM with 1G of heap. No other options for GC etc is used.
As an aside, do note that there's no requirement in Lucene that
each document have the same fields, so it's unclear why you
need two indexes, but perhaps some of the answers to the above
will help us understand.
Like I mentioned, Lucene does the job much faster with two indexes.
Also, be very very careful what you measure when you measure
queries. You absolutely *have* to put some instrumentation in
the code since "slow queries" can result from things other than
searching. For instance, iterating over a Hits object for 100s of
documents....
The Query speeds are much faster than what I need :-) So no complains here.
Show the code, man <G>!
Code below. EvIndexer is the base class. There are two subclasses which implement addEvFieldsToIndexDoc() (template pattern) to add different fields to the index. that code is also pasted below

--Code ---

BaseClass

   public EvIndexer(String indexName) throws Exception {
       this.name = indexName;
       a = new KeywordAnalyzer();
INDEX_PATH = System.getProperty(StoreManager.PROP_DB_DB_LOC, "./index/"); FSDirectory directory = FSDirectory.getDirectory(INDEX_PATH + File.separatorChar + indexName, NoLockFactory.getNoLockFactory()); indexWriter = new IndexWriter(directory, a, IndexWriter.MaxFieldLength.LIMITED); //indexWriter.setUseCompoundFile(false);
       //indexWriter.setRAMBufferSizeMB(256);
} /** Method implemented by extending classes to add data into the index document for the
    *  given event
    *
    * @param d
    */
   protected abstract void addEvFieldsToIndexDoc(Document d, Ev event);
public void addToIndex(Ev ev) throws Exception {
       noOfEventsIndexed++;
Document d = new Document(); addEvFieldsToIndexDoc(d, ev);
       indexWriter.addDocument(d);
if ((noOfEventsIndexed % COMMIT_INTERVAL) == 0) { System.out.println(name + " indexed " + NumberFormat.getInstance().format(noOfEventsIndexed) + " Commiting them");
           commit();
} }

DerievdClass1
   protected void addEvFieldsToIndexDoc(Document d, Ev ev) {
       //noOfEventsIndexed++;
Field id = new Field(EV_ID, Long.toString(ev.getId()), Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.NO); Field src = new Field(EV_SRC, Long.toString(ev.getSrcId()), Field.Store.NO, Field.Index.NOT_ANALYZED); Field type = new Field(EV_TYPE, Integer.toString(ev.getEventTypeId()), Field.Store.NO, Field.Index.NOT_ANALYZED); Field pri = new Field(EV_PRI, Short.toString(ev.getPriority()) , Field.Store.NO, Field.Index.NOT_ANALYZED); Field time = new Field(EV_TIME, getHexString(ev.getRecvTime()) , Field.Store.NO, Field.Index.NOT_ANALYZED);
       d.add(id);
       d.add(src);
       d.add(type);
       d.add(pri);
       d.add(time);
       //noOfFieldsIndexed +=  4;
}




Thanks for the support.
~preetham

Best
Erick


On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Preetham Kajekar <preet...@cisco.com>wrote:

Hi Grant,
Thanks four response. Replies inline.

Grant Ingersoll wrote:

On Dec 17, 2008, at 12:57 AM, Preetham Kajekar wrote:

 Hi,
I am new to Lucene. I am not using it as a pure text indexer.

I am trying to index a Java object which has about 10 fields (like id,
time, srcIp, dstIp) - most of them being numerical values.
In order to speed up indexing, I figured that having two separate
indexers, each of them indexing different set of fields works great. So I
have the first 5 fields in index1 and the remaining in index2.

Can you explain this a bit more?  Are those two fields really large org
something?  How are you obtaining them?  How are you correlating the
documents between the two indexes?  Did you actually try a single index and
it was too slow?

I have a java object which has about 10 fields. However, the fields are not
fixed. The java object is essentially a representation of Syslogs from
network devices. So different syslogs have different fields. Each field has
a unique id and a value (mostly numeric types, so i convert it to string).
There are some fixed fields. So the object is a list of fields which is
produced by a parser.
I am trying to index using two indexers in two separate threads- one for
fixed and another for the non-fixed fields. Except for a unique id, I do not
store the fields in Lucene - i just index them. From the index, i get the
unique id which is all I care about. (the objects are stored elsewhere and
can be looked up based on this unique id).
I did try using a single indexer, but things were quite slow. Getting high
throughput is crucial and having two indexers seemed to do very well. (more
than twice as fast)

Further, the index will never be modified and I can have just one thread
writing to the index. If there are any other performance tips would be very
helpful. I have already looked at the wiki link regarding performance and
using some of them.

Thanks,
~preetham


Now, I want to have boolean AND query's looking for values in both
indexes. Like f1=1234 AND f7=ABCD.f1 and f7 and present in two separate
indexes. Would using the MultiIndexReader help ? Since I am doing an AND, I
dont expect that it would work.

Thanks,
~preetham

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