On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Otis Gospodnetic <otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Merge factor controls how many segments are merged at once. The default is >> 10. >> >> The maxMergeMB setting sets the max size for a given segment to be >> included in a merge. > > I wonder if renaming that to maxSegSizeMergeMB would make it more obvious > what this does?
Well... that setting is already in LogByteSizeMergePolicy (not IndexWriter), so I think in that context it's pretty clear? Though I'd love to find a better name that conveys that the size limitation applies to the segments *being* merged, not to the resulting merged segment. maxStartingSegSizeMB? Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
