Bing, Solr really is quite simple to set up and will definitely provide you with a robust infrastructure from which to load balance. Definitely worth the investment in time to learn. Manually copying Lucene index files around is something you really ought not to be doing.
Regards, Steve On 19 Nov 2010, at 17:23, Bing Li <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, all, > > Since I didn't find that Lucene presents updated indexes to us, may I > transmit indexes in the following way? > > 1) One indexing machine, A, is busy with generating indexes; > > 2) After a certain time, the indexing process is terminated; > > 3) Then, the new indexes are transmitted to machines which serve users' > queries; > > 4) It is possible that some index files have the same names. So the > conflicting files should be renamed; > > 5) After the transmission is done, the transmitted indexes are removed from > A. > > 6) After the removal, the indexing process is started again on A. > > The reason I am trying to do that is to load balancing the search load. One > machine is responsible for generating indexes and the others are responsible > for responding queries. > > If the above approaches do not work, may I see the updates of indexes in > Lucene? May I transmit them? And, may I append them to existing indexes? > Does the appending affect the querying? > > I am learning Solr. But it seems that Solr does that for me. However, I have > to set up Tomcat to use Solr. I think it is a little bit heavy. > > Thanks! > Bing Li
