I have a scenario where I'm seeing the performance (specifically time) of searches against my index degrade on a daily basis. The amount of time it is taking to load the index is staying fairly constant however. This is a fairly large index. It has over a million documents in it.
The scenario I have is that I'm maintaining the index from data in the database ... and I'm doing so on onstant basis. So essentially as changes are made in the database I have a background task that updates the index. So I'm supporting concurrent readers and writers on a constant basis throughout the day. I'm NOT using compound files. During my development and testing, the use of compound files caused a significant increase in Disk I/O usage and caused the maintenance of the index to take much longer. As such ... I decided against them. My thoughts are that the reason the search is taking longer is because the index files are getting more and more "fragmented" over time because I'm not using the compound files. And that's why the searches are taking longer. Thoughts? Thanks Andy
