The setup: Using Lucene.NET in a web environment on Win2k3 servers. One process runs every 5 minutes, grabbing new rows from the database, and adding them to a Lucene index. Only additions are made to the index, no deletions. The mergeFactor is set to 2 to minimize the number of segments.
This index is not searched on, but it is copied to a series of webservers, where searches are performed. I'm caching the IndexReader used by the IndexSearcher; this IndexReader is recreated whenever the index files change. My questions: What's the proper way to deploy this main index to all the webservers? Is it safe to just xcopy the index to each individual webserver? If so, is there a good way to delete the old index files? Now this is just the setup I've dreamed up; if someone can suggest a better method, I'm all ears. I'd like to keep the indexing process separated from the index deployment process. And I don't want to interrupt searches on the web frontend. Thanks! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
