My testing is on 100k documents, but most of the time
i work with 1 million so i don't have a gazillion
segments across my servers.

i'll try and adjust that number down and see what
happens.

-byron

--- Doug Cutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Byron Miller wrote:
> > <property>
> >   <name>indexer.mergeFactor</name>
> >   <value>350</value>
> >   <description>
> >   </description>
> > </property>
> > 
> > Initially high index merge factor caused out of
> file
> > handle errors but increasing the others along with
> it
> > seemed to help get around that.
> 
> That is a very large mergeFactor, larger than I
> would recommend.  How 
> many documents do you index in a run?  More than
> 350*500=175,000?  If 
> not then you're not hitting a merge yet.  What does
> 'ulimit -n' show? 
> Does your performance actually change much when you
> lower this?
> 
> Doug
> 

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