I'm wondering what values of mergeFactor, minMergeDocs and maxMergeDocs people have found to yield the best performance for different configurations. Is there a repository of this information anywhere?
I've got about 30k documents and have 3 indexing scenarios: 1. Full indexing and optimize 2. Incremental indexing and optimize 3. Parallel incremental indexing without optimize Search performance is critical. For both cases 1 and 2, I'd like the fastest possible indexing time. For case 3, I'd like minimal pauses and no noticeable degradation in search performance. Based on reading the code (including the javadocs comments), I'm thinking of values along these lines: mergeFactor: 1000 during Full indexing, and during optimize (for both cases 1 and 2); 10 during incremental indexing (cases 2 and 3) minMergeDocs: 1000 during Full indexing, 10 during incremental indexing maxMergeDocs: Integer.MAX_VALUE during full indexing, 1000 during incremental indexing Do these values seem reasonable? Are there better settings before I start experimenting? Since mergeFactor is used in both addDocument() and optimize(), I'm thinking of using two different values in case 2: 10 during the incremental indexing, and then 1000 during the optimize. Is changing the value like this going to cause a problem? Thanks for any advice, Chuck
