Hi, I am currently indexing around 6 million text documents using lucene. We have a new server arriving in the next few weeks which the queries will be run on. With the following stats: Dell 6650 - 4 x Xeon HT CPU's, 16 GB RAM, 36GB SCSI Ultra160 Hdd. (connected to 1.5TB IDE RAID with actual source documents)
What is the best strategy for fast searches? Do I need to write a server which holds the indexes in a RAMDirectory? When should RAMDirectories generally be used? I have read several articles saying that RAMDrives under linux are rarely a good idea, but am not sure on how to interpret this in the context of lucene and RAMDirectories. I have looked over the documentation I have found on the lucene web site - hope i haven't missed something. Is there a general guide to building large search engines with lucene? I am very new to the whole field. Thanks for the great software! jt ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
