What settings did you use (mergeFactor, maxMergeMB)? "nothing in the middle" is normal. Segments sizes are often rather quantized, for a newly created index. Ie a bunch of segs will be 1 MB, a bunch ~8, a bunch ~64 (assuming the IW flushes at ~ 1MB and mergeFactor is 8).
Mike On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Dvora <barak.ya...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well, this rule seems not working... > > I tried to create an index of 90k documents, with different merge factors. > Somehow, the files size in the final index were 1MB, or 8MB - nothing in the > middle. Am I missing something? Is the best way to really control the files > size is to implement a custom Directory? > > > > Michael McCandless-2 wrote: >> >> So the rough upper bound on any segment's size is mergeFactor * >> maxMergeMB. >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Is-there-a-way-to-limit-the-size-of-an-index--tp27056573p27092361.html > Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
