Hi Tom, Answers below...
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Burton-West, Tom <tburt...@umich.edu> wrote: > Hello all, > > We have very large documents with large numbers of unique terms. Our > documents average about 800,000 KB and about 200,000 tokens. In trying to > understand how often the ramBuffer gets flushed to disk we turned on the > IndexWriter log. > <infoStream file="/tmp/IndexWriter.log">true</infoStream> > > With the Solr default setting of ramBufferSizeMB=32 it appears that the > buffer is flushing every 2-10 documents. > > When we see this in the IndexWriter log: "flush postings as segment _9hw > numDocs=2", does this mean that the buffer is writing a segment that > contains only 2 documents? Yes. > Also how do we interpret the following? > > "DW: ramUsed=33.467 MB newFlushedSize=6764406 docs/MB=0.155 new/old=19.276%" > > What does "docs/MB" and 'new/old" mean? docs/MB is docCount divided by size of the newly flushed segment's size in MB. new/old measures "RAM efficiency", ie size of the flushed segment divided by RAM consumed before the flush. In this case IndexWriter flushed because the RAM buffer hit 33.467 MB, but then the newly flushed segment was 6.45 MB (= 6764406 / 1024 / 1024). This number is expected to be well below 100%, ie, we pay a price to have the malleable data structures in RAM that allow for incoming docs to be inverted... though a "good" number is maybe 30%. The more unique terms you have the lower this number will be... -- Mike http://blog.mikemccandless.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
