Hi all, This topic has been discussed in the mailing list before but I could not find an answer to the problem I am having.
I am trying to decide whether shared directory based index is better way or local index per server is a better way in a clustered application. First I am evaluating the shared direcotry option. I am trying to use shared directory (NFS) and test the performance difference compared to local directory. I didn't see much difference on the search side but indexing I think is little slower in shared directory. I think we can live with this. But, I could not make indexing run in cluster mode. We cache IndexSearcher on each server in the cluster (for faster search). We make sure that the cached index search is always up to date. When I run our full indexer, it cleans the index directory and re indexes all the objects from DB to lucene index directory. But it looks like indexsearcher holds the file handles so I cannot delete the directory. This means I cannot run the full indexer in cluster mode since each server holds file handle on some of the index files and those files cannot be deleted. One solution is to make sure searchers on all servers are closed before running full indexer. But there is no direct way to notify this in cluster. So my question is, Is there any other solution that doesn't need to close searcher to clean the index files? Note: This is in fact not related to shared directory but true for local directory also. Praveen ************************************************************** Praveen Peddi Sr Software Engg, Context Media, Inc. email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 401.854.3475 Fax: 401.861.3596 web: http://www.contextmedia.com ************************************************************** Context Media- "The Leader in Enterprise Content Integration"
