In general, yes. By splitting up a large index into smaller indicies, you are linearizing the search time. Furthermore, that allows you to make your search distributable.
-John On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:00:28 +1000, Anson Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello guys, > > What are some general techniques to make lucene search faster? > > I'm thinking about splitting up the index. My current index has approx 1.8 > million documents (small documents) and index size is about 550MB. Am I > likely to get much gain out of splitting it up and use a > multiparallelsearcher? > > Most of my search queries search queries search on 5-10 fields. > > Are there other things I should look at? > > Thanks to all, > Anson > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
