Re: SSD experience

Ah yes, the beautiful new links in Windows 6. These are 'symlinks' in name only - they operate *very* differently from LUNIX symlinks, and sadly, not quite so well. NTFS is one of the best things about Windows, but it's architecture is not well suited to 'on-the-fly' redirection, as there are many

Re: SSD experience

Indeed I would never actually use it, but symlinks do exist on Windows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link Sanne 2011/8/23 Peter Sturge : > The Solr index directory lives directly on the SSD (running on Windows > - where the word symlink does not appear in any dictionary within a >

Re: SSD experience

The Solr index directory lives directly on the SSD (running on Windows - where the word symlink does not appear in any dictionary within a 100 mile radius of Redmond :-) Currently, the main limiting factors of SSD are cost and size. SSDs will get larger over time. Splitting indexes across multiple

Re: SSD experience

Interesting. Do you make a symlink to the indexes or is the whole Solr directory on SSD? thanks, Gerard Op 23 aug. 2011, om 12:53 heeft Peter Sturge het volgende geschreven: > Just to add a few cents worth regarding SSD... > > We use Vertex SSD drives for storing indexes, and wow, they really

Re: SSD experience

Just to add a few cents worth regarding SSD... We use Vertex SSD drives for storing indexes, and wow, they really scream compared to SATA/SAS/SAN. As we do some heavy commits, it's the commit times where we see the biggest performance boost. In tests, we found that locally attached 15k SAS drives

Re: SSD experience

Thanks folks! On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Erick Erickson wrote: > That link appears to be foo'd, and I can't find the original doc. > > But others (mostly on the user's list historically) have seen very > significant > performance improvements with SSDs, *IF* the entire index doesn't fit >

Re: SSD experience

That link appears to be foo'd, and I can't find the original doc. But others (mostly on the user's list historically) have seen very significant performance improvements with SSDs, *IF* the entire index doesn't fit in memory. If your index does fit entirely in memory, there will probably be some

Re: SSD experience

I haven't tried it with Solr yet, but with straight Lucene about two years ago we saw about a 40% boost in performance on our tests with no changes except the disk. On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Rich Cariens wrote: > Ahoy ahoy! > > Does anyone have any experiences or stories they can share wi

SSD experience

Ahoy ahoy! Does anyone have any experiences or stories they can share with the list about how SSDs impacted search performance for better or worse? I found a Lucene SSD performance benchmark doc