--- Christoph Kiehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > > > I would try putting everything in a single index first, and split > it up > > only if I see performance issues. > > Why would put everything into a single index? I found some benchmark > results on the list (starting with your post from 06/08/04) from > which I > got the impression that the performance loss is very small if I > choose > to search in multiple indexes with MultiSearcher instead of using one > > big index.
I think it's simpler to deal with a single index. One directory, one set of lock files, etc. If you don't gain anything by having multiple indices, why have them? > > Going from 1 index to N indices is > > not a lot of work (not a lot of Lucene-related code). > > How do you get from 1 index to N indices without adding the documents > again? Yes, you would have to re-create N Lucene indices. Otis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]