Generally larger is better, as long as JVM's heap is big enough to allow IW to use that RAM.
Large flushed segments means less merging later ... Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Gudrun Siedersleben <siedersle...@mpdl.mpg.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > we want to speed up building our lucene index. We set ramBufferSize to some > values between 32 and 128 MB, but that does not make any difference > concerning the time used for reindexing. We did not set maxBufferedDocs, .. > which could conflict. > We start the JVM with the following JAVA_OPTS: > > -Xms128m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m > > What is the recommended value for ramBufferSizeMB depending on JAVA_OPTS and > perhaps other lucene parameters set? We use Lucene 3.6.0. > > Best regards > > Gudrun > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
