For now I am going with 64kb and results seem good. Thanks for the useful
feedback.
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Shawn Heisey wrote:
> On 3/19/2014 12:09 AM, Salman Akram wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the info. The articles were really useful but still seems I
>> have
>> to do my own testing to fi
On 3/19/2014 12:09 AM, Salman Akram wrote:
Thanks for the info. The articles were really useful but still seems I have
to do my own testing to find the right page size? I thought for large
indexes there would already be some tests done in SOLR community.
Side note: We are heavily using Microsoft
We do have couple of commodity SSDs already and they perform good. However,
our user queries are very complex and quite a few of them go above a minute
so we really had to do something about it.
Using this beast vs putting the whole index to RAM, the beast still seemed
a better option. Also we are
Thanks for the info. The articles were really useful but still seems I have
to do my own testing to find the right page size? I thought for large
indexes there would already be some tests done in SOLR community.
Side note: We are heavily using Microsoft technology (.NET etc) for
development so by
Salman Akram [salman.ak...@northbaysolutions.net] wrote:
[Hundreds of GB index]
> http://www.storagereview.com/micron_p420m_enterprise_pcie_ssd_review
May I ask why you have chosen a drive with such a high speed and matching cost?
We have some years of experience with using SSDs for search at w
On 3/18/2014 7:39 AM, Salman Akram wrote:
> This SSD default size seems to be 4K not 16K (as can be seen below).
>
> Bytes Per Sector : 512
> Bytes Per Physical Sector : 4096
> Bytes Per Cluster : 4096
> Bytes Per FileRecord Segment: 1024
The *sector* size o
This SSD default size seems to be 4K not 16K (as can be seen below).
Bytes Per Sector : 512
Bytes Per Physical Sector : 4096
Bytes Per Cluster : 4096
Bytes Per FileRecord Segment: 1024
I will go through the articles you sent. Thanks
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at
On 3/18/2014 7:12 AM, Salman Akram wrote:
> Is there a rule of thumb for ideal block size for SSDs for large indexes
> (in hundreds of GBs)? Read performance is of top importance for us and we
> can sacrifice the space a little...
>
> This is the one we just got and wanted to see if there are any
