That is wonderful to hear. (I love that I am not stressing the technology near its limits.)
What if my concern is more in terms of having a large number of requests per second? When should I start to be worried and start thinking about more than low end hardware? Thanks! On 8/12/07, karl wettin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 12 aug 2007 kl. 14.01 skrev lucene user: > > > Do you know if 290k articles and 234 million words is a large > > lucene index > > or a medium one? Do people build them this big all the time? > > If the calculator in my head works you have 300k documents at 4k text > each. > > I say your corpus is borderline small. > > > -- > karl > > > Thanks! > > > > On 8/12/07, karl wettin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> 12 aug 2007 kl. 09.03 skrev lucene user: > >> > >>> If I have an index with 111k articles and 90 million words indexed, > >>> how much > >>> RAM should I have to get really fast access speeds? > >>> > >>> If I have an index with 290k articles and 234 million words > >>> indexed, how > >>> much RAM should I have to get really fast access speeds? > >> > >> Define really fast. > >> > >> I say you need 1.3x as much RAM as the size of your FSDirectory to > >> ensure that the file system cache is never flushed out. But it also > >> depends on user load. Each thread consumes RAM and CPU. > >> > >> In order to really find out, setup the benchmarker to run on your > >> index, and limit the amount of memory your file system chache and JVM > >> is allowed. > >> > >>> Any other advice about sizing a server? > >>> What other info do you need to have to help size the server? > >> > >> Sizing? > >> > >>> Does it matter if the server has a 64 bit processor? > >> > >> In a 64 bit environment a reference to an instance consumes twice as > >> much RAM as in a 32 bit environment. It should not affect a file > >> centric Lucene store (Directory), Your OS and your application that > >> use Lucene might be consuming some more resources though. Again, > >> benchmark. > >> > >>> Speed of processor important? > >> > >> Yes. > >> > >>> Speed of disks? > >> > >> May or may not be intersting depending on how much RAM you have. > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> karl > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
