On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Clemens Wyss DEV <clemens...@mysign.ch> wrote: > Thanks a lot! >>"large text fields" > What is a good limit (in characters) to switch from StringField to TextField? > Do <Langugae>Analyzers (e.g. GermanAnalyzer) help a lot in reducing the size > of an Index?
It's more based on your app's requirements. StringField indexes everything as a single token. >> Add XXXDocValuesField instead of e.g. StringField. > Does this apply only for StringFields? Or for TextFields too? > >> Upgrade to the upcoming Lucene 4.9 > we have not yet transitionen to Java 7/8 ... hopefully soon ;) > >> and take a heap dump and see what's using RAM > Find attached a snippet from MemoryAnalyzer Does this say 59255872 bytes (ie, ~56.5 MB) being used by the StandardDirectoryReader? I'm a little confused because I don't see which structures sum up to that total. And I would expect the FST (terms index) to take more RAM. Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org