bq: For Solr 5 why don't we switch it to 64 bit ?? -1 on this for a couple of reasons > it'd be pretty invasive, and 5.0 may be imminent. Far too big a change to > implement at the last second > It's not clear that it's even useful. Once you get to that many documents, > performance usually suffers
Of course I wouldn't be doing the work so I really don't have much of a vote, but it's not clear to me at all that enough people would actually have a use-case for 2b+ docs in a single shard to make it worthwhile. At that scale GC potentially becomes really unpleasant for instance.... FWIW, Erick On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 2:45 AM, Toke Eskildsen <t...@statsbiblioteket.dk> wrote: > Bill Bell [billnb...@gmail.com] wrote: > > [solr maxdoc limit of 2b] > >> For Solr 5 why don't we switch it to 64 bit ?? > > The biggest challenge for a switch is that Java's arrays can only hold 2b > values. I support the idea of switching to much larger minimums throughout > the code. But it is a larger fix than replacing int with long. > > - Toke Eskildsen
