Which FieldCache API are you using? getStrings? or getStringIndex
(which is used, under the hood, if you sort by this field).
Mike
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Fuad Efendi <f...@efendi.ca> wrote:
> Any thoughts regarding the subject? I hope FieldCache doesn't use more than
> 6 bytes per document-field instance... I am too lazy to research Lucene
> source code, I hope someone can provide exact answer... Thanks
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>> Subject: Lucene FieldCache memory requirements
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>> Hi,
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>> Can anyone confirm Lucene FieldCache memory requirements? I have 100
>> millions docs with non-tokenized field "country" (10 different countries);
> I
>> expect it requires array of ("int", "long"), size of array 100,000,000,
>> without any impact of "country" field length;
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>> it requires 600,000,000 bytes: "int" is pointer to document (Lucene
> document
>> ID), and "long" is pointer to String value...
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>> Am I right, is it 600Mb just for this "country" (indexed, non-tokenized,
>> non-boolean) field and 100 millions docs? I need to calculate exact
> minimum RAM
>> requirements...
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>> I believe it shouldn't depend on cardinality (distribution) of field...
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>> Thanks,
>> Fuad
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