Hi buFka, take a look to http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ImproveIndexingSpeed e.g. your example does not set mergeFactor or RAMBufferSizeMB
I also like the last tip: "Run a Java profiler" Because in my case, the leak of performance vanished after I switched from jdom to saxon. (we are indexing xml-Files not database tables) Best regards Karsten buFka wrote: > > Hi all, > > I can already index with Lucene a very large database (8.0 million > entries). For indexing and search, i'm using the follow example: > > http://kalanir.blogspot.com/2008/06/indexing-database-using-apache-lucene.html > > The indexing takes about 4 hours. Can I speed up this process? > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Improving-Indexing-Performance-tp20890720p20890723.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]