Re: improving RAM usage by IndexWriter

2007-03-22 Thread Michael McCandless
"Chris Hostetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A dirty broken patch is more still better then no patch at all -- worst > case scenerio: nothing happens; typical scenerio: you get some eyeballs > reading your patch even if they can't apply it; best case scenerio: > someone else is really excited b

Re: improving RAM usage by IndexWriter

2007-03-19 Thread Chris Hostetter
: It doesn't apply to SVN head just yet (I need to update the payloads : commit -- Michael: you returned the favor here!), it's not yet thread friendly : (though I can do that after first patch), it messes up the merge policy : when you flush by RAM and not by document count (this is actually alre

Re: improving RAM usage by IndexWriter

2007-03-19 Thread Michael McCandless
"Marvin Humphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think some of these changes are similar to how KinoSearch builds a > > segment. > > Yup... sounds familiar. ;) > > > I'm still working through some lingering issues before I can make a > > clean patch, > > Well, where is it? Don't keep it a

improving RAM usage by IndexWriter

2007-03-19 Thread Michael McCandless
Woops! I meant for this to go to java-dev... Mike On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:09:37 -0400, "Michael McCandless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, > > I've been looking into improving performance of IndexWriter, > specifically how it makes use of RAM to buffer added documents. > > I've created a new