Hi Klaus,
If you've really still got 500MB of changes to your index since the last
time you commit()'ed, then the call to commit() will be costly and take a
while to complete. If in another thread, you reopen() an IndexReader
pointing to that index, it will only see changes since the most recen
It depends on whether or not the commit completes before the
reopen. Lucene 2.9 adds an IndexWriter.getReader method that
will always return with the latest modifications to your index.
So if you're adding many documents, you can at anytime, call
IW.getReader and you will be able to search the cha
