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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-843:
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> > When merging segments we don't merge the "doc store" files when all 
> > segments are sharing the same ones (big performance gain),
> 
> Is this only in the case where the segments have no deleted docs? 

Right.  Also the segments must be contiguous which the current merge
policy ensures but future merge policies may not.


> improve how IndexWriter uses RAM to buffer added documents
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-843
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-843
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Index
>    Affects Versions: 2.2
>            Reporter: Michael McCandless
>            Assignee: Michael McCandless
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: LUCENE-843.patch, LUCENE-843.take2.patch, 
> LUCENE-843.take3.patch, LUCENE-843.take4.patch, LUCENE-843.take5.patch, 
> LUCENE-843.take6.patch, LUCENE-843.take7.patch, LUCENE-843.take8.patch
>
>
> I'm working on a new class (MultiDocumentWriter) that writes more than
> one document directly into a single Lucene segment, more efficiently
> than the current approach.
> This only affects the creation of an initial segment from added
> documents.  I haven't changed anything after that, eg how segments are
> merged.
> The basic ideas are:
>   * Write stored fields and term vectors directly to disk (don't
>     use up RAM for these).
>   * Gather posting lists & term infos in RAM, but periodically do
>     in-RAM merges.  Once RAM is full, flush buffers to disk (and
>     merge them later when it's time to make a real segment).
>   * Recycle objects/buffers to reduce time/stress in GC.
>   * Other various optimizations.
> Some of these changes are similar to how KinoSearch builds a segment.
> But, I haven't made any changes to Lucene's file format nor added
> requirements for a global fields schema.
> So far the only externally visible change is a new method
> "setRAMBufferSize" in IndexWriter (and setMaxBufferedDocs is
> deprecated) so that it flushes according to RAM usage and not a fixed
> number documents added.

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