Erik, Mine is amazingly small too. I store a very small field (a key into my MySQL database for the full document) and index the content without storing it. I have 40,000+ docs and it is only 28MB in size. I've done several searches and it seems to be correct.
James ********************************************************* The Game Development Search Engine and DQuest E-zine http://www.gdse.com/ A Member of the Future Games Network http://www.fgn.com/ On Mon, 20 May 2002, Erik Hatcher wrote: > I'm indexing 900+ files (less than 1,000) that total about 15MB in size. > These are text files and HTML files. I only index them into a few fields > (title, content, filename). My index (specifically _sd.fdt) is 20MB. The > bulk of the HTML files are Javadoc files (Ant's own documentation, > actually). > > Does that seem at all close to being reasonable/normal? I am calling > optimize() before closing the index. > > Thanks for the sanity check. > > Erik > > > > -- > 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]>