Re: Search scalability

2004-11-11 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
If you load it explicitly, then all 800 MB will make it into RAM. It's easy to try, the API for this is super simple. Otis --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it take 800MB of RAM to load that index into a RAMDirectory? Or are only some of the files loaded into RAM? --- Otis Gospodnetic

RE: Search scalability

2004-11-11 Thread Ravi
Thanks a lot. I'll use RAMDirectory and post my results. -Original Message- From: Otis Gospodnetic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 9:09 AM To: Lucene Users List Subject: Re: Search scalability If you load it explicitly, then all 800 MB will make it into RAM

Re: Search scalability

2004-11-10 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Hello, 100 parallel searches going against a single index on a single disk means a lot of disk seeks all happening at once. One simple way of working around this is to load your FSDirectory into RAMDirectory. This should be faster (could you report your observations/comparisons?). You can also

Re: Search scalability

2004-11-10 Thread yahootintin-lucene
Does it take 800MB of RAM to load that index into a RAMDirectory? Or are only some of the files loaded into RAM? --- Otis Gospodnetic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, 100 parallel searches going against a single index on a single disk means a lot of disk seeks all happening at once. One