Re: NFS and Lucene 2.0 status - still troublesome ?

2006-11-13 Thread Peter A. Friend
On Nov 13, 2006, at 8:10 AM, Øyvind Stegard wrote: I've searched the list and have found many references to problems when using Lucene over NFS. Mostly because of file-based locking, which doesn't work all that well for many NFS installations. I'm under the impression that the core locking logi

Re: Optimizing indexes with mulitiple processors?

2005-06-10 Thread Peter A. Friend
On Jun 9, 2005, at 11:52 PM, Chris Collins wrote: In that case I have a different performance issue, that is that FSInputStream and FSOutputStream inherit the buffer size of 1k from OS and IS This would be useful to increase to reduce the amount of RPC's to the filer when doing merges ...

Re: Optimizing indexes with mulitiple processors?

2005-06-10 Thread Peter A. Friend
On Jun 10, 2005, at 9:33 AM, Chris Collins wrote: How many documents did you try to index? Only about 4000 at the moment. I am using a relatively large minMergeDoc that causes me to run out of memory when I make such a change. (I am using 1/2 gb of heap btw). I was running out of mem

Re: Hypenated word

2005-06-13 Thread Peter A. Friend
On Jun 13, 2005, at 6:18 AM, Markus Wiederkehr wrote: I see, the list of exceptions makes this a lot more complicated than I thought... Thanks a lot, Erik! There is a section about the problems that hyphens create in "Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing". Not only are t

fields that change over time

2005-06-14 Thread Peter A. Friend
From reading the docs, it appears that Lucene supports addition of new fields over time to an existing index. This is very handy for folks whose indexing requirements change over time. My question has to do with a change in an existing field name that goes from being unstored to stored. Obv

Re: newbie question on Mac OS X

2005-06-29 Thread Peter A. Friend
On Jun 29, 2005, at 1:12 AM, Xing Li wrote: 1) Downloaded 1.4.3 src 2) ran ant... everything builds 3) $ cd builds 4) $ java -jar lucene-1.5-rc1-dev.jar Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from lucene-1.5-rc1-dev.jar I haven't build anything java for almost 5 years so not sure wha