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>>Subject:
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>>Small indexes
>>From:
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>>"David Elworthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Date:
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>>Thu, 23 May 2002 17:04:58 -0400
>>To:
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>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>>Are there are known problems with indexes over very small numbers of files? I have a 
>program which works fine when it is indexing plenty of documents, but when it only 
>indexes 10 or so, all that gets created is an 8 byte segments file. I build the index 
>in RAM, and then merge it to disc, and I am stabilizing and optimizing in appropriate 
>places. The exact threshold for an index to get created seems to vary with the 
>document size - if they are smaller you need more of them.
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>>It's not a big deal, as my actual document collection is not this small. I'm just 
>curious.
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>>-- David Elworthy
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>There is no known problem, but there is buffering where 10 documents are 
>indexed into memory and then are flushed to disk. The docs will also be 
>flushed when the IndexWriter is closed. So it looks like you either 
>don't close the indexwriter or something else like that.
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>Good luck.
>Dmitry.
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