On 09/08/2006, at 12:47 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote:
The nature of the field cache itself means that the first sort on a particular field can take a long, long time. Synchronization won't really help that much.
I'm not so sure I agree with that. If you have, say, 4 threads concurrently starting a search on a cold index, they will _all_ effectively do a warm of the searcher, chewing up CPU and disk, which may be better utilised by other threads. Wouldn't it be better for 1 thread to do the warming while the others block waiting?
The option to warm-up the index before making it available to concurrent searches is effectively the same thing as this. I would have thought it would be nicer to have it part of the search mechanism rather than rely on coders to constantly build that warm- ing thread into their application.
My 5 Australian cents (currently 3.75 US cents). Paul Smith
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