On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Jason Rutherglen <jason.rutherg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> because of how the datastructure is laid out. if you use mmap, instead >> of lots of seeks, it will simply be lots of page faults instead. > > Ok, right, however assuming the pages are in RAM it could/should be > ok. Eg, in HBase we'd want to store the keys alongside the column > family values, on disk. Loading the keys into heap with the values > still on disk/system IO cache probably is non-optimal. >
you don't have to believe me... if you want to use an FST, load it up in RAM. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
