You can go even further and load all of the index into RAM using RAM Disk.  How 
big of
a index are you talking about?

-Ledio

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Kubes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:51 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Swap with Nutch


larryp wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to get Nutch to load it's index into swap as I believe it will
> give better performance that having it as a file on the hard drive as it
> will be mapped as virtual memory, has anyone every attempted this - any
> suggestion as to how one might force the index into swap?
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> larry
> --
> View this message in context: 
> http://www.nabble.com/Swap-with-Nutch-t1434922.html#a3871982
> Sent from the Nutch - Dev forum at Nabble.com.
>
>   
The FSDirectory in Lucene uses the org.apache.lucene.store.MMapDirectory 
underlying which already uses memory mapping (basically the same as 
virtual memory).

Dennis


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