Hey Eric, One clarification before letting the rest of this discussion sneak over to the zoie list:
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Angel, Eric <ean...@business.com> wrote: * Am I wrong to assume that the RAMDir holds the entire index - just as the > FSDir? Or does RAMDir only hold a portion of the index that hasn't yet been > flushed to disk? > With zoie, you index to the FSDir *and* the RAMDir simultaneously (so there is increased CPU usage for indexing because of this), but you only reopen() the IndexReader on the FSDir every 15minutes (or so), so the fact that you've been writing to it the whole while is invisible to the application in the intervening time. This means that a) you don't need to worry about disaster recovery any worse than a regular non-realtime setup, and b) that when it's time to reopen the FSDir based index, you don't need to write the RAMDir to disk, you can just throw it away, as the disk already has the docs that are in that RAMDir. -jake
