Hi All, Does anybody have experience dynamically varying maxBufferedDocs? In my app, I can never truncate docs and so work with maxFieldLength set to Integer.MAX_VALUE. Some documents are large, over 100 MBytes. Most documents are tiny. So a fixed value of maxBufferedDocs to avoid OOM's is too small for good ongoing performance.
It appears to me that the merging code will work fine if the initial segment sizes vary. E.g., a simple solution is to make IndexWriter.flushRamSegments() public and manage this externally (for which I already have all the needed apparatus, including size information, the necessary thread synchronization, etc.). A better solution might be to build a size-management option into the maxBufferedDocs mechanism in lucene, but at least for my purposes, that doesn' t appear necessary as a first step. My main concern is that the mergeFactor escalation merging logic will somehow behave poorly in the presence of dynamically varying initial segment sizes. I'm going to try this now, but am wondering if anybody has tried things along these lines and might offer useful suggestions or admonitions. Thanks for any advice, Chuck --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]