On 3/22/07, Michael McCandless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Merging is costly because you read all data in then write all data out, so, you want to minimize for byte of data in the index in the index how many times it will be "serviced" (read in, written out) as part of a merge.
Avoiding the re-writing of stored fields might be nice: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A--jira--Commented%3A-%28LUCENE-565%29-Supporting-deleteDocuments-in-IndexWriter-%28Code-and-Performance-Results-Provided%29-p6177280.html -Yonik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]