ok, thanks. I knew that the documents were buffered in memory until they were flushed, but I thought that in memory, they were still separate documents/segments until they were merged together at the appropriate time (dependent on the mergeFactor).
Do you mean that when the IndexWriter flushes the documents in memory to the disk, it will merge all the documents in that flush to one segment? Thanks! David On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 2:40 AM, Karsten F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Hi David, > > this is not true, please take a look to > IndexWriter#setRAMBufferSizeMB > and > IndexWriter#setMaxBufferedDocs > > But you can produce 9 segments (each with only one document), if you call > IndexWriter#flush > or > IndexWriter#commit > after each addDocument > > so from my knowledge about lucene there is no difference between > #flush > and > #optimize(getMergeFactor()) > (btw #optimize() is equal to optimize(1) ). > > > Best regards > Karsten > > p.s. and yes, searching goes through every segment. > > > David Lee-26 wrote: > > > > So from what I understand, is it true that if mergeFactor is 10, then > when > > I > > index my first 9 documents, I have 9 separate segments, each containing 1 > > document? And when searching, it will search through every segment? > > > > Thanks! > > David > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Clarification-about-segments-tp19117115p19120086.html > Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
