Hi, Lucene's IndexWriter can safely accept updates coming from several threads, just make sure to share the same IndexWriter instance across all threads, no extrenal locking is necessary.
30 minutes sound slike a lot for 30000 files unless they are large. You can have a look at http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ImproveIndexingSpeed which gives good advices on how to improve Lucene indexing speed. -- Adrien --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org