RE: Ideal Index Fragmentation

2005-09-02 Thread Friedland, Zachary (EDS - Strategy)
Follow-up questions below denoted with -- Thanks, Zach -Original Message- From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 12:25 PM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Ideal Index Fragmentation On Aug 30, 2005, at 9:53 PM, Friedland, Zachary (EDS

RE: Ideal Index Fragmentation

2005-09-02 Thread Chris Hostetter
: --OK, is there a preferred strategy for generating lists of distinct : attributes in the hit[]? I've seen Hoss' post about using QueryFilters, : but that assumes that you know what values you want to count; but I : won't know the domain of values to expect in every field... Can I get :

Re: Ideal Index Fragmentation

2005-09-01 Thread Jeff Rodenburg
On Aug 30, 2005, at 9:53 PM, Friedland, Zachary (EDS - Strategy) wrote: * I'm interested in implementing a dynamic filter component that will walk through the hits[] object and pull out distinct values for certain fields to display as search-within-a-search options (all of them will

Re: Ideal Index Fragmentation

2005-08-31 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Aug 30, 2005, at 9:53 PM, Friedland, Zachary (EDS - Strategy) wrote: More assorted questions: *I have been reading the posts on using Filter vs. BooleanQuery. To implement a search-within-a-search, it seems the Filter is advantageous due to its cacheability, but are there other

Ideal Index Fragmentation

2005-08-30 Thread Friedland, Zachary (EDS - Strategy)
Does anyone have experience using lots of indexes simultaneously with the multisearcher? I'm looking to index 15 distinct objects for searching, and was thinking of creating 15 distinct indexes for better manageability performance (for certain searches when I know which index to search).

Re: Ideal Index Fragmentation

2005-08-30 Thread Chris Lamprecht
Zach, It probably won't help performance to split the index and then search it on the same machine unless you search the indexes in parallel (with a multiprocessor or multi-core machine). Even in this case, the disk is often a bottleneck, essentially preventing the search from really running in

RE: Ideal Index Fragmentation

2005-08-30 Thread Friedland, Zachary (EDS - Strategy)
: Subject: Re: Ideal Index Fragmentation Zach, It probably won't help performance to split the index and then search it on the same machine unless you search the indexes in parallel (with a multiprocessor or multi-core machine). Even in this case