For the Lucene book I wrote some test cases that compare FSDirectory and RAMDirectory. What I found was that with certain settings FSDirectory was almost as fast as RAMDirectory. Personally, I would push FSDirectory and hope that the OS and the Filesystem do their share of work and caching for me before looking for ways to optimize my code.
Otis --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I did following test: > I created the RAM folder on my Red Hat box and copied c. 1Gb of > indexes > there. > I expected the queries to run much quicker. > In reality it was even sometimes slower(sic!) > > Lucene has it's own RAM disk functionality. If I implement it, would > it > bring any benefits? > > Thanks in advance > J. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
