Hi, I've been wondering (and I'll eventually get around to performing a comparative test sometime this weekend) about IO and search performance (ie, ignore OS caching).
What's the biggest cause of search degradation when Lucy is chugging through it's on-disk index? Physically *finding* data (ie, seeking and thrashing around the disk), waiting for data to *transfer* from the disk to CPU? I'm quite interested to know whether using an SSD where seek time and other latency issues are almost zero would dramatically improve search times. I've seen vast improvements when using them in RDBMS', but this may not translate as well here. gk
