Hi Jesse, I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve. Do you want to use the distributed search or do you want to split an existing index? None of these tasks is the prerequisite for the other. If you want to split an index, there are several ways to do this. Which way to choose depends on the reason for the split. If you want to use the distributed search, you just need two or more separate indexes, start a search server for each and configure your searcher.dir property in nutch-site xml to point to the search-servers.txt file, where you entered the hosts and ports of your search servers (detailed description: http://www.mail-archive.com/nutch-user@lucene.apache.org/msg12730.html).
Kind regards, Martina -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Jesse Hires [mailto:jhi...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 04:59 An: nutch-user@lucene.apache.org Betreff: splitting an index (yes, again) My apologies in advance. I've been digging through the mail archives searching for information on splitting the index after crawling, but I am getting even more confused or the information is too incomplete for a newbie like myself. I see reference to using mergesegs, but not enough to make an educated guess (at least at my level, which I admit is low right now). I've gotten to the point of having worked my way through the tutorial here: http://wiki.apache.org/nutch/Nutch0.9-Hadoop0.10-Tutorial and have a working site using a single computer. I have four more computers to add, and would like to try distributed search. When I read that tutorial to the Distributed Searching portion followed by "split the index" it mentions this link: http://wiki.apache.org/nutch/%5Bhttp%3A//www.nabble.com/Lucene-index-manipulation-tools-tf2781692.html#a7760917 But that may as well be saying "then some magic happens". Does anyone have "step by step" instructions for spitting the index for use in distributed search using mergesegs or otherwise? It doesn't have to have a lot of explanation, just a list of example steps. Mostly this is experimental for me with no major plans than my own education, but because I am starting completely fresh at this, some things are still quite confusing. Thanks, Jesse
