you didn't mention the hit count on the query with 50-60 terms. just wondering if the time was linear.
----- Original Message ----- From: Armbrust, Daniel C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Lucene Users List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 6:57 AM Subject: RE: Lucene's scalability > Currently, we are using a Ultra-80 Sparc Solaris with 4 processors and 4 GB > of Ram. > > However, we are only making use of one of those processors with the index. > Our biggest speed restriction is the fact that our entire index resides on a > single disk drive. We have a raid array coming soon. > > The performance has been very impressive, but as you can imagine, the speed > depends highly on the complexity of the query. If you run a query with a > 1/2 a dozen terms and fields, which returns ~30,000 results, it usually > takes on the order of a second or two. If you run a query with 50-60 terms, > it may take 5-6 seconds. > > I don't have any better performance stats than this currently. > > Dan > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Harpreet S Walia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 7:23 AM > To: Lucene Users List > Subject: Re: Lucene's scalability > > > Hi , > > I am also trying to do a similar thing . I am very eager to know what kind > of hardware u are using to maintain such a big index. > In my case it is very important that the search happens very fast . so does > such a big index of 10 gb pose any problems in this direction > > TIA > > Regards > Harpreet > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Armbrust, Daniel C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Lucene Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 12:07 AM > Subject: RE: Lucene's scalability > > > > I currently have an index of ~ 12 million documents, which are each about > > that size (but in xml form). > > > > When they are transformed for lucene to index, there are upwards of 50 > > searchable fields. > > > > The index is about 10 GB right now. > > > > I have not yet had any problems with "pushing the limits" of lucene. > > > > In the next few weeks, I will be pushing my number of indexed documents up > > into the 15-20 million range. I can let you know if any problems arise. > > > > Dan > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Joel Bernstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 1:32 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Lucene's scalability > > > > > > Is there a known limit to the number of documents that Lucene can handle > > efficiently? I'm looking to index around 15 million, 2K docs which > contain > > 7-10 searchable fields. Should I be attempting this with Lucene? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Joel > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
