I am quite new to Lucene. I am trying to prepare an application where: 1. ~ 100K documents exist. 2. ~ 4 search server will be utilized 3. Documents are not frequently updated and I want to check every minute a deletion or addition. 4. I am ready to sacrifice some system resource to keep my setup as simple as possible
Here are my questions: 1. I would like to create a single index folder and mapping this folder to each server. Is this a good practice? 2. Instead of updating (org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriterConfig.OpenMode#CREATE_OR_APPEND) my indexes, I want to overwrite them. Opening my indexes with IndexWriterConfig.OpenMode.CREATE seems enough. I am considering that SearcherFactory can warm and prepare my IndexReader for live system. Is this a good way or am I totally in wrong direction? 3. During IndexWriter operations such as overwriting indexes, what are the consequences of "searcherManager.acquire();"? I am afraid of having some concurrency errors at live system under heavy load. Thanks
