- I read from Peter Keegan's recent postings:
- "The Lucene server is using MMapDirectory. I'm running
- the jvm with -Xmx16000M. Peak memory usage of the jvm
- on Linux is about 6GB and 7.8GB on windows."
- We don't have nearly as much memory as Peter but I
- wonder whether he is gaining anythin
I thought I'd post some good news about MMapDirectory as
the comments in the release notes are quite downbeat about
its performance. In some environments MMapDirectory
provides a big improvement.
Our test application is an index of 11.4 million
documents which are derived from MARC (bibliographic
