Does it take 800MB of RAM to load that index into a
RAMDirectory?  Or are only some of the files loaded into RAM?

--- Otis Gospodnetic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 100 parallel searches going against a single index on a single
> disk
> means a lot of disk seeks all happening at once.  One simple
> way of
> working around this is to load your FSDirectory into
> RAMDirectory. 
> This should be faster (could you report your
> observations/comparisons?).  You can also try using ramfs if
> you are
> using Linux.
> 
> Otis
> 
> --- Ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >  We have one large index for a document repository of
> 800,000
> > documents.
> > The size of the index is 800MB. When we do searches against
> the
> > index,
> > it takes 300-500ms for a single search. We wanted to test
> the
> > scalability and tried 100 parallel searches against the
> index with
> > the
> > same query and the average response time was 13 seconds. We
> used a
> > simple IndexSearcher. Same searcher object was shared by all
> the
> > searches. I'm sure people have success in configuring lucene
> for
> > better
> > scalability. Can somebody share their approach?
> > 
> > Thanks 
> > Ravi. 
> > 
> >
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