On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Paul Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 04/04/2011 20:13, Michael McCandless wrote:
>>
>> How are you merging these indices? (IW.addIndexes?).
>>
>> Are you changing any of IW's defaults, eg mergeFactor?
>>
>> Mike
>
> Hi Mike
>
> I have
>
> indexWriter.setMaxBufferedDocs(10000);
> indexWriter.setMergeFactor(3000);
>
I didn't read though the entire email but MergeFactor 3000 doesn't
look right at all. You should try something between 5 and 30. I
haven't seen a mergeFactor > 50 doing any good in a common env. Why do
you use such a large factor?
simon
> these are a hangover from earlier code, I tried changing them and it didnt
> seem to make any difference, but do they look wrong ?
>
> The index that falls over during optmizationcreates about 10,000,000 records
>
> What I do is build 10 different indexes sequentially one after the after (so
> only one is hitting the db at any one time) but once the index is built I
> optimize the index in the background
> by creating an instance of the following class and submitting it to an
> ExecutionService , configured to have at most 2 threads acting
>
> I built my own class rather than just using optimize() with the background
> option because that wouldnt allow me to do the necessary
> debugging/calculations
>
>
> static class IndexWriterOptimizerAndClose implements Callable<Boolean>
> {
> private int maxId;
> private IndexWriter indexWriter;
> private DatabaseIndex index;
> private IndexOptions options;
>
> /**
> *
> * @param maxId
> * @param indexWriter
> * @param index
> * @param options
> */
> public IndexWriterOptimizerAndClose(int maxId, IndexWriter
> indexWriter, DatabaseIndex index, IndexOptions options)
> {
> this.maxId=maxId;
> this.indexWriter= indexWriter;
> this.index=index;
> this.options=options;
> }
>
> public Boolean call() throws IOException, SQLException
> {
>
> StopWatch clock = new StopWatch();
> clock.start();
> String path = options.getIndexesDir() + index.getFilename();
> System.out.println(index.getName()+":Started Optimization at
> "+Utils.formatCurrentTimeForOutput());
>
> indexWriter.optimize();
> indexWriter.close();
> clock.stop();
> // For debugging to check sql is not creating too few/many rows
> if(true) {
> int dbRows = index.getNoOfRows(maxId);
> IndexReader reader = IndexReader.open(FSDirectory.open(new
> File(path)),true);
> System.out.println(index.getName()+":"+dbRows+" db
> rows:"+(reader.maxDoc() - 1)+" lucene docs");
> reader.close();
> }
> System.out.println(index.getName()+":Finished Optimization:" +
> Utils.formatClock(clock));
>
> return true;
> }
> }
>
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