I think the read locks are preventing you from deleting from the index with your reader and writing to the index with a writer at the same time.
If you never use a writer than I guess you don't need to worry about this. But how do you create the indexes? Luke ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn Konopinsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lucene Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 4:17 PM Subject: Read locks on indexes > Hi, > > I have a question regarding read locks on indexes. I have the situation > where I have n applications (separated jvms) running queries. These > applications are read-only, and never use an IndexWriter. > > The index is only ever updated using rsync. The applications don't need > up the minute updates, only the data from when the reader was created is > fine. > > My question is whether it's ok to disable read locks in this scenario? > What are read locks protecting? > > Best, > Shawn. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]