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Steven Parkes commented on LUCENE-845:
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        I think the combination of these two changes should give a net/net
        sizable improvement on "low latency" apps....

I think this would be great. It's always been a pet peeve of mine that even in 
low pressure/activity environments, there is often a delay from write to read.

Sounds like this would help take most of the work/risk off the developer.

> If you "flush by RAM usage" then IndexWriter may over-merge
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-845
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-845
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Index
>    Affects Versions: 2.1
>            Reporter: Michael McCandless
>            Assignee: Michael McCandless
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: LUCENE-845.patch
>
>
> I think a good way to maximize performance of Lucene's indexing for a
> given amount of RAM is to flush (writer.flush()) the added documents
> whenever the RAM usage (writer.ramSizeInBytes()) has crossed the max
> RAM you can afford.
> But, this can confuse the merge policy and cause over-merging, unless
> you set maxBufferedDocs properly.
> This is because the merge policy looks at the current maxBufferedDocs
> to figure out which segments are level 0 (first flushed) or level 1
> (merged from <mergeFactor> level 0 segments).
> I'm not sure how to fix this.  Maybe we can look at net size (bytes)
> of a segment and "infer" level from this?  Still we would have to be
> resilient to the application suddenly increasing the RAM allowed.
> The good news is to workaround this bug I think you just need to
> ensure that your maxBufferedDocs is less than mergeFactor *
> typical-number-of-docs-flushed.

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