Re: MergeFactor advice wanted

2007-05-03 Thread Erick Erickson
timize function inside the function itself ? Any solution to this ? -Original Message- From: Mark Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 4:03 PM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: MergeFactor advice wanted I think it is worth your time to do some benchmarki

Re: MergeFactor advice wanted

2007-05-03 Thread Erick Erickson
I don't think (but don't know for sure) whether optimizing before the end of the run buys you anything. And you're right, it takes a while. I've assumed that it was best done at the end of the entire run, but that's only an assumption. Search the archives for the thread titled MergeFactor and Ma

RE: MergeFactor advice wanted

2007-05-03 Thread Chandan Tamrakar
: MergeFactor advice wanted I think it is worth your time to do some benchmarking. I think mergeFactor is not very helpful in the end...if you set it high, you'll index faster but then your searches will be slower prompting you to optimize...after which you'll find that you paid all your

Re: MergeFactor advice wanted

2007-05-03 Thread Aleksander M. Stensby
Ok. but then you would not optimize at all? Not even in the end of the indexing run? On Thu, 03 May 2007 12:17:40 +0200, Mark Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think it is worth your time to do some benchmarking. I think mergeFactor is not very helpful in the end...if you set it high, y

Re: MergeFactor advice wanted

2007-05-03 Thread Mark Miller
I think it is worth your time to do some benchmarking. I think mergeFactor is not very helpful in the end...if you set it high, you'll index faster but then your searches will be slower prompting you to optimize...after which you'll find that you paid all your gains back. Test things out for yo