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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-1337: -------------------------------------------- Jason are you thinking of LUCENE-414 (NIOFSDirectory)? > [PATCH] improve searching under high concurrancy > ------------------------------------------------ > > Key: LUCENE-1337 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1337 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Search > Affects Versions: 2.3.1 > Environment: Linux > Reporter: Brian Gardner > Priority: Minor > Attachments: lucene.patch > > > I was trying to load test my web server and kept running into a condition > were the web server would become unresponsive even though the load was below > one. Turns out Lucene has synchronization blocks around reading the index. > It appears this was only necassary to synchronize access to a descriptor > which contains a RandomAccessFile and information about the state of this > file. My solution was to use a pool of descriptors so that they could be > reused on subsequent reads. During periods of low contention only one or a > few Descriptors will be created, but under heavy loads many Descriptors can > be created to avoid synchronization. After creating and applying my patch, I > was able to triple my searching throughput and fully utilize the resources, > the CPU's becoming the new bottleneck. My patch modifies FSDirectory > directly, but I'm not entirely sure that's the proper implementation. I'd > like to help resolve this synchronization issue for other lucene users, so > please let me know how I can help. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]